[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Create kern folder for Linux kernel modules

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Fri Dec 22 14:05:32 CET 2017


On 22-Dec-17 10:04 AM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> On 12/22/2017 2:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 22/12/2017 06:57, Hemant Agrawal:
>>> This patch moves the Linux kernel modules code to a common place.
>>>  - Separate the kernel module code from user space code.
>>>  - The GPL-2.0 licensed code is separated from the BSD-3 licensed 
>>> userspace
>>>    code
>>
>> What is the benefit of separate things by license?
> 
> The separation makes it easy to identify and check the license.
> 
> Any patch introducing new file in *non-kern* folders shall not be 
> GPL-2.0 licensed.  Or GPL-2.0 license is allowed only for kern folder.

The latter is better since BSD kernel modules are not GPL-licensed. So, 
anything in the kern/kernel dir is not *necessarily* GPL-licensed, but 
anything *outside* kern/kernel dir is *necessarily not* GPL-licensed.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly


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