From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Spolc-00057T-9U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:55:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Spola-0007gQ-Uz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:55:20 -0400 Received: from roura.ac.upc.edu ([147.83.33.10]:56305 helo=roura.ac.upc.es) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Spola-0007g7-Js for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:55:18 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Llu=C3=ADs_Vilanova?= References: <4FFA9C30.2070201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4FFAA0C3.3080703@redhat.com> <4FFBB7FB.3070303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4FFBD6F1.90403@redhat.com> <20120713091611.GC15503@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> <4FFFEF8E.5080705@redhat.com> <50000793.2020401@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:55:07 +0300 In-Reply-To: <50000793.2020401@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:33:39 +0200") Message-ID: <87ehofff04.fsf@fimbulvetr.bsc.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Anthony Liguori , Stefan Hajnoczi , Michael Tokarev , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , Stefan Weil , Hannes Reinecke , Wenchao Xia Paolo Bonzini writes: > Il 13/07/2012 11:51, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto: >> Il 13/07/2012 11:16, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: >>>> "Working around the QEMU block layer license" is not a goal per se, >>>> especially because you haven't a) assessed _what_ is the GPL code that >>>> the library would use; b) told us why the library should not be under >>>> the GPL. >>>> >>>> Please design first according to the functionality you want to >>>> implement, then think about the implementation. >>> >>> Licensing is one headache but the real challenge is that the QEMU block >>> layer relies on the QEMU main loop and a bunch of other architecture. >> >> It doesn't really, not on Windows which has no AIO for example. That's >> why I suggested: >> >> - assessing what code is GPL and what are the dependencies on it > So I tried trimming down the list of files needed to compile > qemu tools, and here is a list: > Easy to relicense to LGPLv2+: > block/raw.c none (GPLv2+: Red Hat, IBM) > error.c LGPLv2 (Red Hat, IBM, Stefan Weil) > iov.c GPLv2 (Red Hat, SuSE/Hannes Reinecke, Michael Tokarev) > module.c GPLv2 (Red Hat, IBM, Blue Swirl) > qemu-error.c GPLv2+ (Red Hat, Blue Swirl, IBM) > trace/control.c GPLv2 (Lluis Vilanova) > trace/default.c GPLv2 (Lluis Vilanova) > (I added some people to Cc. Lluis and Michael, can you also look at > http://wiki.qemu.org/Relicensing if you're willing to relicense > your past contributions from GPLv2 to GPLv2+?. Blue Swirl said > he'd accept any other GPLv2 or GPLv3 compatible license, which > should include LGPLv2+). I have no problems relicensing to "GPLv2 or later" or "GPLv3 or later". Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth