From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56855) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvtfz-00019u-BZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:18:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvtfx-0005ZX-S0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:18:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvtfx-0005ZP-Hc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:18:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:18:00 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20110823161800.GP5728@redhat.com> References: <1314032798-21423-1-git-send-email-smizrahi@redhat.com> <1314032798-21423-2-git-send-email-smizrahi@redhat.com> <4E52ADFC.5070506@redhat.com> <20110823161239.GO5728@redhat.com> <4E53D1DC.7030609@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E53D1DC.7030609@codemonkey.ws> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Added target to build libvdisk Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Saggi Mizrahi , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:14:20AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 08/23/2011 11:12 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >$(block-obj-y) pulls in 'aio.o' which is built from aio.c which > >is licensed "GPLv2 only". So even those many files are BSD > >licenses, the combined work will be GPLv2-only. Unfortunately ending > >up with a libqemublock.so which is GPLv2-only is as good as useless > >for libs/apps since it is incompatible with both LGPLv2(+) and GPLv3. > > > >Now in this case aio.c is labelled as Copyright IBM / Anthony, > >so IBM could likely resolve this licensing to be more widely > >compatible. This could^H^Hwould become a non-trivial task if we > >need to look at many files& then also any patches accepted to > >those files from 3rd parties over the years :-( > > If there was a block driver library, I would expect it to be GPL, not LGPL. This would prevent us from using it in libvirt, unless we wrote a helper program which we spawned anytime we wanted to use some functionality library :-( Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|