On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:14:20AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 08/23/2011 11:12 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >$(block-obj-y) pulls in 'aio.o' which is built from aio.c which > >is licensed "GPLv2 only". So even those many files are BSD > >licenses, the combined work will be GPLv2-only. Unfortunately ending > >up with a libqemublock.so which is GPLv2-only is as good as useless > >for libs/apps since it is incompatible with both LGPLv2(+) and GPLv3. > > > >Now in this case aio.c is labelled as Copyright IBM / Anthony, > >so IBM could likely resolve this licensing to be more widely > >compatible. This could^H^Hwould become a non-trivial task if we > >need to look at many files& then also any patches accepted to > >those files from 3rd parties over the years :-( > > If there was a block driver library, I would expect it to be GPL, not LGPL.
This would prevent us from using it in libvirt, unless we wrote a helper program which we spawned anytime we wanted to use some functionality library :-( Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|