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RE: [Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] hypercall interface libraries and the GPL
From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:46:57 -0500
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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...

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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