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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: Announcing: Open OVF project source code availibility
On 12/08/08 15:46 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>
> Why was the Eclipse Public License chosen ? This license is not
> compatible with the GPL[1], so no GPL licensed app can make use of
> this code :-( For example it makes it impossible to use this code to
> assist in supporting OVF in virt-manager, virt-install or virt-image
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License
>
> "The EPL 1.0 is not compatible with the GPL, and a work created by
> combining a work licensed under the GPL with a work licensed under
> the EPL cannot be lawfully distributed."
>
As a file format, the output from open-ovf can be used by any
code of any license. That is, any code can consume an OVF file.
For runtime integration, we are planning on implementing an XML-RPC
interface into and out of the ovf library, which will allow any other
runtime code to interact with it.
Mike
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