Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] run: license as LGPL

2013-02-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/23/2013 12:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 05:19:15PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >> It makes no sense to prohibit reuse of the wrapper in other LGPL >> projects, since most of libvirt is designed to be LGPL. Of >> course, when using the wrapper to wrap a GPL program,

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] run: license as LGPL

2013-02-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Relicensed libguestfs run.in script: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/1ca842d98b2da7fb3cd09e572c88ddba5b52b673 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings fr

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] run: license as LGPL

2013-02-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 05:19:15PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > It makes no sense to prohibit reuse of the wrapper in other LGPL > projects, since most of libvirt is designed to be LGPL. Of > course, when using the wrapper to wrap a GPL program, the combined > result is still effectively GPL, but th

[libvirt] [PATCH] run: license as LGPL

2013-02-22 Thread Eric Blake
It makes no sense to prohibit reuse of the wrapper in other LGPL projects, since most of libvirt is designed to be LGPL. Of course, when using the wrapper to wrap a GPL program, the combined result is still effectively GPL, but that shouldn't force us to license the wrapper as GPL in isolation. *