[kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Make virtio modules GPL

[Dong, Eddie]

Curuious: should we consider it to be dual licensed from beginning?
thx,eddie

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>From: kvm-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
>[mailto:kvm-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of 
>Anthony Liguori
>Sent: 2008年1月3日 5:02
>To: virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org
>Cc: kvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Make virtio modules GPL
>
>The virtio modules do not advertise themselves as GPL but rely 
>on exported
>GPL symbols.  This makes them unloadable as modules.
>
>This patch adds the appropriate MODULE_LICENSE().
>
>Signed-off: Anthony Liguori <aliguori at us.ibm.com>
>
>diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
>index 54a8017..8f6040d 100644
>--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
>+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
>@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
> 
> #define VIRTIO_MAX_SG	(3+MAX_PHYS_SEGMENTS)
> 
>+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>+
> static unsigned char virtblk_index = 'a';
> struct virtio_blk
> {
>diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>index ebe4b03..9789e68 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
> static int napi_weight = 128;
> module_param(napi_weight, int, 0444);
> 
>+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>+
> /* FIXME: MTU in config. */
> #define MAX_PACKET_LEN (ETH_HLEN+ETH_DATA_LEN)
> 
>diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
>index 646f716..6e27c08 100644
>--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
>+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
>@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
> #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> #include <linux/virtio_config.h>
> 
>+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>+
> static ssize_t device_show(struct device *_d,
> 			   struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
>diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c 
>b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
>index 951e4c7..15ee2fa 100644
>--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
>+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
>@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
> #include <linux/virtio_ring.h>
> #include <linux/device.h>
> 
>+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>+
> #ifdef DEBUG
> /* For development, we want to crash whenever the ring is screwed. */
> #define BAD_RING(vq, fmt...)			\
>
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