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

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----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?

Thanks,
Ian




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