From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsWSP-0005p2-BW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:03:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsWSM-0004FJ-6P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:03:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsWSL-0004F6-RX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:03:10 -0400 Message-ID: <51CD6DF7.5060904@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:05:27 +0200 From: Laszlo Ersek MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20130606150618.10486.60669.stgit@hds.com> <20130606150641.10486.35710.stgit@hds.com> <51C97C16.70008@redhat.com> <20130628104326.GJ2507@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130628104326.GJ2507@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 05/10] qemu-ga: Add configure options to specify path to Windows/VSS SDK List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Anthony Liguori Cc: libaiqing@huawei.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@gmail.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, vrozenfe@redhat.com, Tomoki Sekiyama , pbonzini@redhat.com, seiji.aguchi@hds.com, areis@redhat.com On 06/28/13 12:43, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 01:16:38PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 06/06/13 17:06, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote: >>> To enable VSS support in qemu-ga for Windows, header files included in >>> VSS SDK are required. >>> The VSS support is enabled by the configure option like below: >>> ./configure --with-vss-sdk="/path/to/VSS SDK" >>> >>> If the path is omitted, it tries to search the headers from default paths >>> and VSS support is enabled only if the SDK is found. >>> VSS support is disabled if --without-vss-sdk or --with-vss-sdk=no is >>> specified. >>> >>> VSS SDK is available from: >>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23490 >>> >>> To cross-compile using mingw, you need to setup the SDK on Windows >>> environments to extract headers. You can also extract the SDK headers on >>> POSIX environments using scripts/extract-vss-headers and msitools. > > 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 ? Thanks for raising this -- I think we should first figure out what constitutes derivative work of what in this case (according to the FSF's interpretation). I'd like to take a passive (r/o) role in that discussion. I'm adding Anthony to the To: list. Thanks, Laszlo