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From: "Lluís Vilanova" <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:33:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uk1ec5r.fsf@fimbulvetr.bsc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500D3EEE.8030101@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:09:18 +0200")

Paolo Bonzini writes:

> Il 23/07/2012 13:55, Lluís Vilanova ha scritto:
>>>> >> I have no problems relicensing to "GPLv2 or later" or "GPLv3 or later".
>>> > What about LGPLv2+?  (Note the "L".)
>> I'd prefer to keep it non-lesser. Is it absolutely necessary?

> This is about making the block layer part of a library.  The block layer
> is 90% under a BSD license, but the LGPLv2 is a good compromise.

I understand. I'm not much of an expert on licensing, but if it's necessary to
make the tracing control API LGPLv2+ or LGPLv3+ in order to provide a non-viric
API to the users of the block layer library, I have no problem with it.


Lluis

-- 
 "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn
 something new, the whole world becomes that much richer."
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 Tollbooth

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-09  8:54 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API Wenchao Xia
2012-07-09  9:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-10  5:04   ` Wenchao Xia
2012-07-10  7:17     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-13  9:16       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-13  9:51         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-13 11:33           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-13 15:03             ` Michael Tokarev
2012-07-13 15:17             ` Blue Swirl
2012-07-13 17:07             ` Stefan Weil
2012-07-13 22:55             ` Lluís Vilanova
2012-07-16 10:39               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-23 11:55                 ` Lluís Vilanova
2012-07-23 12:09                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-24  9:33                     ` Lluís Vilanova [this message]
2012-07-16  8:16             ` Wenchao Xia
2012-07-16  8:19               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-18  8:51                 ` Wenchao Xia
2012-07-18  9:03                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-18 15:28                     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-18  9:41                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-18 10:42                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-18 12:50                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-18 13:51                   ` Andreas Färber
2012-07-18 13:55                     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-18 13:58                   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-07-18 14:02                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-18 14:12                       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-07-18 15:23                         ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-18 15:35                     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-07-19 11:37                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-20 11:38                         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-07-20 11:53                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-23 18:15                   ` Blue Swirl
2012-07-25  8:08                     ` Wenchao Xia
2012-07-09  9:27 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-07-10  5:37   ` Wenchao Xia
2012-07-10  7:18     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-13  9:12       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-13  9:16         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-07-13  9:47           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-16  7:48           ` Wenchao Xia
2012-07-09 14:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-10  5:42   ` Wenchao Xia
2012-07-13  9:13   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-13  9:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-13  9:43       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-13 10:42         ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-13 10:55           ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-13 11:19             ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-16  7:55       ` Wenchao Xia

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