License advice for Async QMP

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

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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.

My current understanding:

1. Apache-licensed projects probably cannot vendor GPL code of any kind
(v2, v3, LGPL)
2. Apache-licensed projects can *probably* import GPL'd Python code (v2,
v3, LGPL) at runtime without creating a "derivative work", but it isn't a
settled matter, legally.
3. LGPL has little or no effect on a Python library, because you do not
link against Python as such to produce a combined work -- The PIP installer
generally re-acquires the original distribution and uses that at runtime
instead, which avoids legal hassle from bundling GPL code.
4. I would *probably* need a permissive license only if I wanted to allow
the vendoring of this Python code by non-GPL projects.

Does that sound about right?

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