Re: [PATCH 12/15] hyperv: move VMBus connection ids to uapi

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:50:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Lastly, there is licensing issues on headers. It would be good to have any
> userspace ABI headers licensed with a more liberal license so that BSD and DPDK drivers
> could use them directly. Right now each one reinvents.

Microsoft could easily solves this problem by offering a suitably
liberally licensed header documenting the full HyperV guest protocol
that Linux and other projects could use.