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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] libxl: Add interface for querying
 hypervisor about PCI topology
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:21:08 +0000
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On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 10:15 -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
> >> index ea5d8c1..07428c0 100644
> >> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
> >> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
> >> @@ -279,3 +279,74 @@ libxl_device_model_version libxl__default_device_model(libxl__gc *gc)
> >>   {
> >>       return LIBXL_DEVICE_MODEL_VERSION_QEMU_XEN;
> >>   }
> >> +
> >> +/* These two routines are "inspired" by pciutils */
> > "inspired" in a licensing consistent way?
> 
> pciutils is licensed under GPL2 (e.g. 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git/tree/COPYING) so 
> this would be consistent.

libxl is LGPL 2.1 not GPL2, and I'm afraid transitioning code in that
direction is not allowed by the license.

Ian.