> -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:47 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] include vhd-util in system vm template? > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:00:57AM -0700, Edison Su wrote: > > Regarding to bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK- > 2481, there is no vhd-util installed in system vm template, thus certain > storage related operations failed. > > As discussed before, vhd-util binary is licensed under BSD and > GPL(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-30), it should be > ok to included in system vm template, right? > > Edison - The issue isn't if we can include it in a built system VM really. > We are > building those from a number of GPL projects (obviously including the OS > itself). > > The issue with the legal stuff is how we tie to that software and if we intend > to distribute it from ASF infra. As long as we don't store the utility in our > version control, and do not actually ship it from ASF hardware, we can > consider it OK IMO. The inclusion of that utility will need to be part of the > system VM build config, which we do store in the repo obviously. I agree. We will not store that utility in ASF cloudstack git repository. And vhd-utility is same as any other GPL binary we already installed in system vm template.
For example, in the system vm build script(tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh): There is one line code like: wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/haproxy/haproxy_1.4.8-1_i386.deb then why we can't do the following: wget http://some-place/vhd-util -O /bin/ > > We are shipping system VMs from > the Citrix S3 account today, and will probably switch to Wido's hosting server > (or similar) for the future. This means that it's not an ASF issue... and > frankly > the OS being distributed itself would be a larger problem than what packages > are installed in that OS. > > Make sense? > > -chip
