Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] iov: add some functions to manage iovec

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:24:38 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 09:56:21AM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > + * Author: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
> > + *
> > + * This file also contains code originally from QEMU include/qemu/iov.h
> > + * and licensed under the following terms:
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc.
> > + *
> > + * Author(s):
> > + *  Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
> > + *  Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
> > + *
> > + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
> > + * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
> > + *
> > + * Contributions after 2012-01-13 are licensed under the terms of the
> > + * GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your option) any later version.  
> 
> The description of the provenance of the code and its authorship is
> useful.  I don't think the second copyright notice is useful in this
> case, since it's also Red Hat, like the first.  Likewise, I don't
> think the GPL invocation is useful, since we're not changing that
> license.

That's simply a full quote of the original terms. It's not required for
any purpose, but I think it's more convenient to just quote as-is
rather than editing bits outs of it.

-- 
Stefano