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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block
From: |
Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:39:34 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:55:07AM +0300, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> 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".
What about LGPLv2+? (Note the "L".)
Stefan
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, (continued)
- 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, 2012/07/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API,
Stefan Hajnoczi <=
- 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
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/18