From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek =?utf-8?Q?Marczykowski-G=C3=B3recki?= Subject: Re: libxenvchan license (lGPLv2.1) and xen/include/public/COPYING license? Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 22:47:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20160607204705.GE1593@mail-itl> References: <20160606213623.GB16628@char.us.oracle.com> <20160607133630.GA8106@x230.dumpdata.com> <22358.60994.451787.234123@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5575408605659074320==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta6.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bANu6-0004Zf-C5 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:47:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: <22358.60994.451787.234123@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Ian Jackson 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, roger.pau@entel.upc.edu, andryuk@aero.org, waldi@debian.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============5575408605659074320== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/cYA8VCGycg41AiS" Content-Disposition: inline --/cYA8VCGycg41AiS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 04:54:42PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] libxenvchan license (lGPLv= 2.1) 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/m= isc/libvchan/ > > > (albeit this is about xen/include/public/io/libxenvchan.h). > > >=20 > > > The problem is that the 'COPYING' file in the root directory of Xen s= ource=20 > > > says: > ... > > > Also it is in FreeBSD (source tree): ./sys/xen/interface/io/libxenvch= an.h > > >=20 > > > That looks to be an oversigh. The commit that introduced the file is: > > > commit 1a16a3351ff2f2cf9f0cc0a27c89a0652eb8dfb4 > > > Author: Daniel De Graaf > > > Date: Thu Oct 6 19:44:40 2011 +0100 > > >=20 > > > libvchan: interdomain communications library > > >=20 > > > 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? >=20 > ISTM that at the very least the libxenvchan.h file should indeed be > covered by the permissive ("BSD-style") licence. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I did > git-log --pretty=3D'format:%an <%ae>' xen/include/public/io/libxenvchan= =2Eh tools/libvchan | sort -u > on stating, and got this output: >=20 > Anil Madhavapeddy > Daniel De Graaf > David Scott > Ian Campbell > Ian Jackson > Jan Beulich > Jason Andryuk > Keir Fraser > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > Marek Marczykowski-G=C3=B3recki > Matthew Daley > Olaf Hering > Roger Pau Monne > Wei Liu >=20 > 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 ? FWIW Neither I, nor ITL staff (as author of original libvchan library) have anything against converting it to the BSD-style licence. --=20 Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-G=C3=B3recki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? --/cYA8VCGycg41AiS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXVzLJAAoJENuP0xzK19cssl0IAJodsBkCgmfbifemu8YWyCnl tKuxELWBQMfOkK0dkKWRYwFwELFHOPk6OquiQtZNVpnr88i0GYNe4rQIJ5vv8qIu 2s2cjeyUWHJySGSSu0WqI62B828zGv+kJq38NnZdlxJNrJiKWTHcd3qbJSmueM/d QO0j1dhQQnYu4yHYjzLcz8nhnmp8T30nabdQ57fb3GOtCmN9i9eoUADg6eaFUYPc j2Q+4f0HAE+NcoJ39genRDcJvnq6IYp1whDOC7UrwPBXL8wiRcyGX1MkYhrJUsVC kQrYSTLacfRdBs2IqMl5jzl/y3+9UxOFjCHImK7yLSesgFMYEjtxGFtCJKuy+/w= =nKBn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/cYA8VCGycg41AiS-- --===============5575408605659074320== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KWGVuLWRldmVs IG1haWxpbmcgbGlzdApYZW4tZGV2ZWxAbGlzdHMueGVuLm9yZwpodHRwOi8vbGlzdHMueGVuLm9y Zy94ZW4tZGV2ZWwK --===============5575408605659074320==--