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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block
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Lluís Vilanova |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:55:07 +0300 |
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Paolo Bonzini writes:
> Il 13/07/2012 11:51, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto:
>> Il 13/07/2012 11:16, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>>>> "Working around the QEMU block layer license" is not a goal per se,
>>>> especially because you haven't a) assessed _what_ is the GPL code that
>>>> the library would use; b) told us why the library should not be under
>>>> the GPL.
>>>>
>>>> Please design first according to the functionality you want to
>>>> implement, then think about the implementation.
>>>
>>> Licensing is one headache but the real challenge is that the QEMU block
>>> layer relies on the QEMU main loop and a bunch of other architecture.
>>
>> It doesn't really, not on Windows which has no AIO for example. That's
>> why I suggested:
>>
>> - assessing what code is GPL and what are the dependencies on it
> So I tried trimming down the list of files needed to compile
> qemu tools, and here is a list:
> Easy to relicense to LGPLv2+:
> block/raw.c none (GPLv2+: Red Hat, IBM)
> error.c LGPLv2 (Red Hat, IBM, Stefan Weil)
> iov.c GPLv2 (Red Hat, SuSE/Hannes Reinecke, Michael
> Tokarev)
> module.c GPLv2 (Red Hat, IBM, Blue Swirl)
> qemu-error.c GPLv2+ (Red Hat, Blue Swirl, IBM)
> trace/control.c GPLv2 (Lluis Vilanova)
> trace/default.c GPLv2 (Lluis Vilanova)
> (I added some people to Cc. Lluis and Michael, can you also look at
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Relicensing if you're willing to relicense
> your past contributions from GPLv2 to GPLv2+?. Blue Swirl said
> he'd accept any other GPLv2 or GPLv3 compatible license, which
> should include LGPLv2+).
I have no problems relicensing to "GPLv2 or later" or "GPLv3 or later".
Lluis
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- [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Wenchao Xia, 2012/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Wenchao Xia, 2012/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/07/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Michael Tokarev, 2012/07/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Blue Swirl, 2012/07/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Stefan Weil, 2012/07/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API,
Lluís Vilanova <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/07/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Lluís Vilanova, 2012/07/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Lluís Vilanova, 2012/07/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Wenchao Xia, 2012/07/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Wenchao Xia, 2012/07/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Kevin Wolf, 2012/07/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/07/18