Re: License advice for Async QMP

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 04:35:17PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> In addition to what Daniel wrote: I'd recommend GPLv2+ over GPLv2.

Yep, that'd be my pref too generally.

Regards,
Daniel
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