[PATCH 05/45] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-new: Add acccessor to new struct vgic_irq instance

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Tue Apr 26 11:42:37 PDT 2016


On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:44:33AM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:21:30AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On 25/04/16 20:49, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 06:15:25PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > >> Hi Andre,
> > >>
> > >> I'm just randomly jumping in here because I spotted a typo in $SUBJECT.
> > >> 'accessor' has too many c's. Also, just curious, but if the author is
> > >> from Linaro (hi Christoffer), then why do the new files this patch adds
> > >> have ARM copyrights?
> > >>
> > > 
> > > We just decided to let ARM deal with asserting the license since we all
> > > collaborated on it, but others also suggested that we should let ARM and
> > > Linaro share the license.
> > 
> > I personally have no objections to having both ARM and Linaro sharing
> > the copyright, but I just don't know how this works in practice (and
> > asking any legal department is a sure recipe to delay these patches for
> > an extra 6 months, give or take a few years).
> > 
> > In the end, all I care about is the licence under which the code is
> > released.
> >
> 
> Thanks, my curiosity is satisfied. I fully agree that if it's not easy
> to share a collaborated file, then it's just a matter of flipping a coin,
> or defaulting to whichever has the majority.
> 
I also only care about the license under which it is released.

I opted for defaulting to the company that is most set up to pursue any
potential infringement on the copyright.

-Christoffer



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