From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42604) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsWt2-0005Js-Nc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:30:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsWt1-0005zQ-16 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:30:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62075) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsWt0-0005zK-Nv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:30:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:30:25 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20130628113025.GN2507@redhat.com> References: <20130606150618.10486.60669.stgit@hds.com> <20130606150641.10486.35710.stgit@hds.com> <51C97C16.70008@redhat.com> <20130628104326.GJ2507@redhat.com> <51CD6B4C.90106@redhat.com> <20130628110141.GK2507@redhat.com> <51CD70F2.6030208@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51CD70F2.6030208@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 05/10] qemu-ga: Add configure options to specify path to Windows/VSS SDK Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: libaiqing@huawei.com, seiji.aguchi@hds.com, stefanha@gmail.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, vrozenfe@redhat.com, Tomoki Sekiyama , lcapitulino@redhat.com, Laszlo Ersek , areis@redhat.com On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:18:10PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 28/06/2013 13:01, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto: > >>> What is the license of the VSS SDK ? In particular is the license > >>> compatible with QEMU to allow us to link to it from GPL code ? > >> > >> Doesn't it fall under the "operating system component" exception? > > > > Maybe, maybe no. I think it depends what the VSS SDK actually includes. > > > > IANAL, but my interpretation is that the exception would only apply > > to stuff that is distributed as part of the base Windows install. Since > > this is a separate download from Microsoft, it isn't clear to me that > > the exception would apply in this case. > > > > Does the VSS SDK actually include the .dll library that qemu-ga would > > be linking aginst, or is the .dll part of base windows install, and > > VSS SDK merely includes the header files needed for compilation ? > > Only the headers, the IDL files, and the "import libraries": > > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/lib/winxp/obj/i386/vss_uuid.lib > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/lib/winxp/obj/i386/vssapi.lib > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/lib/win2003/obj/ia64/vss_uuid.lib > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/lib/win2003/obj/ia64/vssapi.lib > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/lib/win2003/obj/i386/vssapi.lib > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/lib/win2003/obj/i386/vss_uuid.lib > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/lib/win2003/obj/amd64/vss_uuid.lib > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/lib/win2003/obj/amd64/vssapi.lib > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/winxp/vss.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/winxp/vswriter.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/winxp/vsbackup.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vdslun.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vswriter.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vsmgmt.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vscoordint.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vscoordint.idl > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vsswprv.idl > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vsswprv.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vss.idl > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vss.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vdslun.idl > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vsbackup.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vsprov.idl > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vsprov.h > Program Files/Microsoft/VSSSDK72/inc/win2003/vsmgmt.idl That sounds more reasonable then from the POV of the gpl system components exception. BTW, I notice that mingw64 includes the vss.h header and vssapi.a library, so I wonder if that's sufficient to compile this code, without needing to use the VSS SDK download at all. 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 :|