Hi, What is the license of libxc code? Is that GPL2, LGPL, or BSD. I dont find the license file under tools/, tools/libxc, or a lot of files in tools/libxc says nothing about their licenses. I looked at the LICENSE file under the root, but that is not very clear to me. Thanks, Jun _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On 19/12/2008 08:48, "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004@gmail.com> wrote:> What is the license of libxc code? Is that GPL2, LGPL, or BSD. > > I dont find the license file under tools/, tools/libxc, or a lot of > files in tools/libxc says nothing about their licenses. I looked at > the LICENSE file under the root, but that is not very clear to me.See COPYING at the root of the xen repository -- in the absence of an overriding specific license, source files are GPLv2. That applies to everything under tools/libxc. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> wrote:> On 19/12/2008 08:48, "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What is the license of libxc code? Is that GPL2, LGPL, or BSD. >> >> I dont find the license file under tools/, tools/libxc, or a lot of >> files in tools/libxc says nothing about their licenses. I looked at >> the LICENSE file under the root, but that is not very clear to me. > > See COPYING at the root of the xen repository -- in the absence of an > overriding specific license, source files are GPLv2. That applies to > everything under tools/libxc.So that is GPL2. That indicates all the applications run with libxenctrl must be released under GPL2, too? Is it better to relax it a bit, for ex having libxenctrl code in LGPL? Thanks, Jun _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On 19/12/2008 09:36, "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004@gmail.com> wrote:>> See COPYING at the root of the xen repository -- in the absence of an >> overriding specific license, source files are GPLv2. That applies to >> everything under tools/libxc. > > So that is GPL2. That indicates all the applications run with > libxenctrl must be released under GPL2, too? > > Is it better to relax it a bit, for ex having libxenctrl code in LGPL?It''s been discussed before and it would be difficult due to the number of people who have contributed under GPLv2 already. For libxenctrl, your best bet is reimplementation of the pieces you need -- there''s nothing very complex in libxenctrl. If you need libxenguest, that''s another matter... Might be best to wrap it in its own process for licensing reasons. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel