Andrew D. Ball
2006-Aug-01 19:03 UTC
[Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL
Good afternoon. libxenctrl and libxenguest are GPL, right? One can probably make hypercalls without them. Even so, if they are GPL, why? Why not LGPL or something else, at least for some parts of them. Peace. Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> -----Original Message----- > From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel- > bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Andrew D. Ball > Sent: 01 August 2006 20:04 > To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > Subject: [Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL > > Good afternoon. > > libxenctrl and libxenguest are GPL, right?Yes.> One can probably make hypercalls without them. Even so, if they are > GPL, why? Why not LGPL or something else, at least for some parts of > them.I can certainly see an argument for them being LGPL. Running some searches on the changelog, it looks like it mightn''t be too difficult to get agreement from all the contributors to relicense tools/libxc. The number of people and organizations that have submitted non-trivial patches to those files is just about manageable. I assume no one has objections to this? Thanks, Ian _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Sean Dague
2006-Aug-18 12:48 UTC
[Xen-devel] Re: hypercall interface libraries and the GPL
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:23:59PM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:> > -----Original Message----- > > From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel- > > bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Andrew D. Ball > > Sent: 01 August 2006 20:04 > > To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > > Subject: [Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL > > > > Good afternoon. > > > > libxenctrl and libxenguest are GPL, right? > > Yes. > > > One can probably make hypercalls without them. Even so, if they are > > GPL, why? Why not LGPL or something else, at least for some parts of > > them. > > I can certainly see an argument for them being LGPL. > > Running some searches on the changelog, it looks like it mightn''t be too > difficult to get agreement from all the contributors to relicense > tools/libxc. The number of people and organizations that have submitted > non-trivial patches to those files is just about manageable. > > I assume no one has objections to this?You''ll definitely get no objection from the IBM camp. Making those libraries LGPL would make a lot of sense as far as we''re concerned. -Sean -- Sean Dague IBM Linux Technology Center email: japh@us.ibm.com Open Hypervisor Team alt: sldague@us.ibm.com _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Hollis Blanchard
2006-Aug-18 16:46 UTC
RE: [Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:23 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:> > -----Original Message----- > > From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel- > > bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Andrew D. Ball > > Sent: 01 August 2006 20:04 > > To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > > Subject: [Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL > > > > Good afternoon. > > > > libxenctrl and libxenguest are GPL, right? > > Yes. > > > One can probably make hypercalls without them. Even so, if they are > > GPL, why? Why not LGPL or something else, at least for some parts of > > them. > > I can certainly see an argument for them being LGPL. > > Running some searches on the changelog, it looks like it mightn''t be too > difficult to get agreement from all the contributors to relicense > tools/libxc. The number of people and organizations that have submitted > non-trivial patches to those files is just about manageable. > > I assume no one has objections to this?I wouldn''t, except there is code in tools/libxc/powerpc64 that was borrowed from another project. I can check with the original author to see if relicensing is acceptable... -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Hollis Blanchard
2006-Aug-18 17:11 UTC
RE: [Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:46 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:23 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel- > > > bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Andrew D. Ball > > > Sent: 01 August 2006 20:04 > > > To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > > > Subject: [Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL > > > > > > Good afternoon. > > > > > > libxenctrl and libxenguest are GPL, right? > > > > Yes. > > > > > One can probably make hypercalls without them. Even so, if they are > > > GPL, why? Why not LGPL or something else, at least for some parts of > > > them. > > > > I can certainly see an argument for them being LGPL. > > > > Running some searches on the changelog, it looks like it mightn''t be too > > difficult to get agreement from all the contributors to relicense > > tools/libxc. The number of people and organizations that have submitted > > non-trivial patches to those files is just about manageable. > > > > I assume no one has objections to this? > > I wouldn''t, except there is code in tools/libxc/powerpc64 that was > borrowed from another project. I can check with the original author to > see if relicensing is acceptable...I checked. LGPL is fine. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel