Xen Developers: A few weeks back, Ian Campbell and Stefano Stabellini proposed that some files in the Xen.org community have their license changed: The Xen source base includes two low level libraries (libxenctrl.so and libxenguest.so) which provide low level services to toolstacks and other components of the Xen system. These two libraries are currently licensed under the umbrella of the top level COPYING file, i.e. GPLv2. libxenlight has the aim of reducing maintenance burden across all toolstacks and is rapidly gaining momentum as a common shared implementation of core toolstack functionality. In order to maximise the amount of sharing possible the decision was made to license libxenlight under the LGPLv2. However libxenlight makes use of libxenctrl and libxenguest and is therefore effectively GPL which reduces the opportunities for libxenlight to be used. Specifically this is a problem for libvirt bindings since libvirt is LGPL. Therefore we would like to propose relicensing both libxenctrl and libxenguest (i.e. the contents of tools/libxc) under the LGPLv2 and libelf (xen/common/libelf, shared with tools and hypervisor) under a dual GPLv2/LGPLv2 license. At this time, I am happy to report that I have been in touch with all the developers who have worked on these files and have received approval for this change. Here is the current approval list: INDIVIDUALS Brendan Cully - Approved Bryan Payne - Approved Dave McCracken - Approved Nguyen Anh Quynh - Approved Shiram Rajagopalan - Approved Tristan Gingold - Approved George Coker - Approved Hap9 - Approved COMPANIES VA Linux - Approved Intel - Approved Fujitsu - Approved Citrix - Approved Oracle - Approved Novell - Approved Red Hat - Approved AMD - Approved We are in the final approval stages from Stratus, IBM, and HP as well as the following developers: Bin Ren Derek Murray Geoffrey Lefebvre Guy Zana Jody Belka Justin Gibbs Kip Macy Yuji Shimada Michael Fetterman Simon Kagstrom If you are aware of any issues with this licensing change, please contact myself, Ian Campbell or Stefano Stabellini in the next two weeks as we intend to switch the license on August 11, 2010. Thank you Stephen Spector Xen.org Community Manager T: (772) 621-5062 | M: (954) 854-4257 stephen.spector@xen.org http://blog.xen.org | @xen_com_mgr Network World Open Source Exposed Blog<http://www.networkworld.com/community/spector> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel