From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: olaf@aepfle.de, mattjd@gmail.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
anil@recoil.org, dave.scott@citrix.com,
marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com, roger.pau@entel.upc.edu,
waldi@debian.org, andryuk@aero.org,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com,
dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: libxenvchan license (lGPLv2.1) and xen/include/public/COPYING license?
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:54:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22358.60994.451787.234123@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160607133630.GA8106@x230.dumpdata.com>
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] libxenvchan license (lGPLv2.1) and xen/include/public/COPYING license?"):
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 05:36:23PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > I picked the list of people on this email from the git log on tools/misc/libvchan/
> > (albeit this is about xen/include/public/io/libxenvchan.h).
> >
> > The problem is that the 'COPYING' file in the root directory of Xen source
> > says:
...
> > Also it is in FreeBSD (source tree): ./sys/xen/interface/io/libxenvchan.h
> >
> > That looks to be an oversigh. The commit that introduced the file is:
> > commit 1a16a3351ff2f2cf9f0cc0a27c89a0652eb8dfb4
> > Author: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
> > Date: Thu Oct 6 19:44:40 2011 +0100
> >
> > libvchan: interdomain communications library
> >
> > As such I was wondering if the folks who wrote/checked the file in
> > could weight in on what their intention was in regards to this file?
ISTM that at the very least the libxenvchan.h file should indeed be
covered by the permissive ("BSD-style") licence.
If we intend for this library to be used in the BSDs (much like
in-kernel frontends) then the whole library should have a permissive
licence.
I did
git-log --pretty='format:%an <%ae>' xen/include/public/io/libxenvchan.h tools/libvchan | sort -u
on stating, and got this output:
Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
David Scott <dave.scott@citrix.com>
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Jason Andryuk <andryuk@aero.org>
Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Matthew Daley <mattjd@gmail.com>
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
I guess the Citrix staff ought to have a common view. Lars, do we
need to consult with management or shall we just give our consent to
libvchan being permissively-licensed ?
Ian.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-06 21:36 libxenvchan license (lGPLv2.1) and xen/include/public/COPYING license? Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-07 13:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-07 15:54 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2016-06-07 20:47 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2016-06-09 14:21 ` [PATCH for 4.7] libxenvchan: Change license of header from Lesser GPL v2.1 to BSD Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-09 14:30 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-09 15:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-09 15:12 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-09 15:16 ` Daniel De Graaf
2016-06-09 15:23 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2016-06-09 16:34 ` Jason P Andryuk
2016-06-09 16:37 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2016-06-09 15:27 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-09 16:36 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-09 15:35 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-09 15:37 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-06-09 15:43 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-10 10:33 ` Ian Campbell
2016-06-10 13:07 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-10 13:31 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-10 14:58 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-13 9:28 ` [PATCH v2 hopefully " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-13 10:28 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-10 15:00 ` [PATCH " Ian Campbell
2016-06-09 15:44 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-09 16:19 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-10 13:08 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-09 16:45 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-09 16:57 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-09 17:00 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-10 7:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-10 10:24 ` Matthew Daley
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