[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel- > > > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew D. Ball > > > Sent: 01 August 2006 20:04 > > > To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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