Libguestfs - Aug 2013 - Re: Modules in gnulib that are GPL and are used in libguestfs

after creating a git clone I executed "bootstrap" and then entered
"libguestfs/.gnulib/modules" and executed "grep -rn GPL * | grep
":GPL" |
grep -v "build tool" > ~/GPLed"


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@redhat.com>wrote:
> How did you construct this list?  It appears to list modules which are
> not used by libguestfs directly or indirectly, eg (picked at random):
>
> > avltreehash-list:31:GPL
> > avltree-list:24:GPL
> > avltree-oset:21:GPL
>
> Rich.
>
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:18:09AM +0300, Or Goshen
wrote:
> after creating a git clone I executed "bootstrap" and then
entered
> "libguestfs/.gnulib/modules" and executed "grep -rn GPL * |
grep ":GPL" |
> grep -v "build tool" > ~/GPLed"
The .gnulib subdirectory is the gnulib submodule, so it contains a
complete copy of the gnulib upstream sources.

The 'interesting' modules are ones which are copied into ../gnulib,
and then only the ones which are actually used from libguestfs library
code (not from the tools which are themselves GPLv2+).  Gnulib doesn't
exactly make it easy to determine these licensing issues.

Rich.

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well, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is at least one module that is
used and is GPL: xvasprintf


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:18:09AM +0300, Or Goshen wrote:
> > after creating a git clone I executed "bootstrap" and then
entered
> > "libguestfs/.gnulib/modules" and executed "grep -rn GPL
* | grep ":GPL" |
> > grep -v "build tool" > ~/GPLed"
>
> The .gnulib subdirectory is the gnulib submodule, so it contains a
> complete copy of the gnulib upstream sources.
>
> The 'interesting' modules are ones which are copied into ../gnulib,
> and then only the ones which are actually used from libguestfs library
> code (not from the tools which are themselves GPLv2+).  Gnulib doesn't
> exactly make it easy to determine these licensing issues.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
> Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)
>