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

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:46 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> 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...

I checked. LGPL is fine.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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