From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul@redhat.com>,
Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: License advice for Async QMP
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:35:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eec1ezfe.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFn=p-Y_j0fQJCGHrwryk9=7qjPPU6VHYiOSqiAuz==Mn2s4jw@mail.gmail.com> (John Snow's message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:26:28 -0400")
John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm deep into writing a new Async QMP library for QEMU, one that I intend
> to ship outside of our castle walls and host on PyPI.
>
> I need to choose a license for it. I slapped GPLv2 on it in keeping with
> the license on the original library by Luiz Capitulino (And it is generally
> my preference), but I was debating loosening the license to MIT so that it
> plays nicer with Apache-licensed projects. ...Maybe.
>
> I don't know if that's really necessary, though, and I do generally prefer
> a "copyleft" to "permissive" these days.
In addition to what Daniel wrote: I'd recommend GPLv2+ over GPLv2.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-13 18:26 License advice for Async QMP John Snow
2021-07-13 18:39 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-07-14 14:35 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2021-07-14 14:40 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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