Re: [ANNOUNCE] libxenlight

[Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>]

Jun Koi wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
> Is this yet-another-GPL lib? If so, that is really disappointed.
>
>   
> I think people desperately need LGPL code like this, but not GPL. So
> please make it LGPL for people to use.
>
> Personally, I have some small projects, and I had to reimplement a
> part of libxc under LGPL. If libxenlight is under LGPL, I dont have to
> waste my time doing that.
>
> I believe that libvirt doesnt want this code, because of
>   
> incompatibility issue: libvirt is LGPL, which is more free, IMO.
>   
Hi Jun,

The library by itself is released under the LGPLv2 license. However, 
since it's linked to the xenguest and xencontrol libraries which are 
both GPLv2, you cannot use it in a LGPL context yet, but only in a GPL 
context (unless you can replace all xenguest/xc calls to some libraries 
of your own).

we do have another implementation of libxc that is LGPL (rewritten from 
scratch) that is available in the xencloud api-libs tree. however a 
reimplemented version (or relicensed version) of xenguest is still 
missing for now.

-- 
Vincent