From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35505) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvtjk-0003n9-Le for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:22:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvtjj-00061K-RT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:22:00 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.161.173]:41032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvtjj-00061C-JK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:21:59 -0400 Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so247350gxk.4 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E53D3A4.3070306@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:21:56 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 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> <20110823161800.GP5728@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20110823161800.GP5728@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Added target to build libvdisk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: Saggi Mizrahi , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/23/2011 11:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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 :-( libvirtd is GPL, no? But QEMU is GPL. Libraries derived from QEMU will also be GPL. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Regards, > Daniel