Xen origins and time line (Was: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen and gnu gpl)

[Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Patrick Archibal <bugpb60@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In first, thanks for all these informations.
>
> It seems you have a good knowledge of xen. Maybe, you know big mile stone of
> the project ??
> I have just two date : :o(
> 2003 --> creation of xen
> 2005-- > xen support virtualisation like intel vt et amd pacifica
> I dont have more informations. I'm looking for six or seven milestone for my
> study ?
> Do you have more informations about that ?
>

http://books.google.com/books?id=XS-Jj7s2nhYC&pg=PA15&dq=running+xen+timeline&ei=Kb61SaaxLYz2MJ6z-eML#PPA15,M1

Cheers,
Todd

> Thanks
> Best regards
> Patrick
>
>
>> From: mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen and gnu gpl
>> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:15:11 +0000
>> CC: chris.ace@xxxxxxx
>>
>> On Monday 09 March 2009 10:02:34 Christian Tramnitz wrote:
>> > Im not an lawyer either but I think this has nothing to do with "derived
>> > work" and/or kernel vs. userspace but rather with the second answer: the
>> > fact that Citrix owns Xen and releases it (kind of) using different
>> > licenses, for a more detailed explanation see:
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-licensing
>>
>> Well, I mentioned that possibility for completeness but the reason that I
>> think "derived works" vs "mere aggregation" is important is that Citrix
>> actually do not own the copyrights on all of Xen. Some of the code in the
>> hypervisor comes from Linux, for instance. Some of it comes from external
>> contributors.
>>
>> They did actually rewrite much of the userspace tools (Xend, XenStored)
>> themselves for their closed-source product - therefore they hold all the
>> copyrights on those tools - but the hypervisor they use is still GPL and
>> can't
>> easily / practically be closed off, even if they wanted to do that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
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