From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Hanquez Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] libxenlight Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:59:46 +0000 Message-ID: <4AF82E62.904@eu.citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jun Koi Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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