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

[Sean Dague <japh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:23:59PM +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?

You'll definitely get no objection from the IBM camp.  Making those
libraries LGPL would make a lot of sense as far as we're concerned.

        -Sean

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Sean Dague
IBM Linux Technology Center                     email: japh@xxxxxxxxxx
Open Hypervisor Team                           alt: sldague@xxxxxxxxxx

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