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 -- Mike D. Day IBM LTC Cell: 919 412-3900 Sametime: ncmike at us.ibm.com AIM: ncmikeday Yahoo: ultra.runner PGP key: http://www.ncultra.org/ncmike/pubkey.asc
Daniel P. Berrange
2008-Aug-12 14:46 UTC
Announcing: Open OVF project source code availibility
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 -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
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 -- Mike Day http://www.ncultra.org AIM: ncmikeday | Yahoo IM: ultra.runner PGP key: http://www.ncultra.org/ncmike/pubkey.asc