Linux Virtualization - Aug 2008 - Announcing: Open OVF project source code availibility

Announcing the open-ovf project and source code availibility.

Hi folks, we are announcing the availibility of source code for the
open-ovf project. 

OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software
appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to
help establish OVF as a transparent and platform-nuetral method for
packaing virtual machine images. 

We anticipate being able to deploy a single OVF package to either Xen
or KVM. Eventually expanding that list to include VMware, Hyper-V, and
other platforms. Getting to that point will require community
contributions.

For a quick summary of OVF and the open source project, see the .pdf
from the recent Xen summit located at:

http://www.xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/open-ovf-proposal.pdf


The open-ovf project is hosted at sourceforge:

http://open-ovf.wiki.sourceforge.net/


And source code is hosted in a git repository:

http://gitorious.org/projects/open-ovf/repos


Scott Moser <smoser at us.ibm.com> is the project maintainer.

Please feel free to respond to this email if you have any questions!

Mike


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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:34:33AM -0400, Mike D. Day
wrote:
> Announcing the open-ovf project and source code availibility.
> 
> Hi folks, we are announcing the availibility of source code for the
> open-ovf project. 
Why was the Eclipse Public License chosen ?  This license is not
compatible with the GPL[1], so no GPL licensed app can make use of
this code :-( For example it makes it impossible to use this code to
assist in supporting OVF in virt-manager, virt-install or virt-image

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License

  "The EPL 1.0 is not compatible with the GPL, and a work created by
   combining a work licensed under the GPL with a work licensed under
   the EPL cannot be lawfully distributed."

Daniel
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On 12/08/08 15:46 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> Why was the Eclipse Public License chosen ?  This license is not
> compatible with the GPL[1], so no GPL licensed app can make use of
> this code :-( For example it makes it impossible to use this code to
> assist in supporting OVF in virt-manager, virt-install or virt-image
> 
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License
> 
>   "The EPL 1.0 is not compatible with the GPL, and a work created by
>    combining a work licensed under the GPL with a work licensed under
>    the EPL cannot be lawfully distributed."
> 
As a file format, the output from open-ovf can be used by any
code of any license. That is, any code can consume an OVF file.

For runtime integration, we are planning on implementing an XML-RPC
interface into and out of the ovf library, which will allow any other
runtime code to interact with it. 

Mike


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