| Licensing Userland utils [message #11653] |
Sat, 31 March 2007 06:32  |
shuveb
Messages: 5
Registered: February 2007
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Hi,
Virtualization is going mainstream and there are several tools being
developed by many 3rd parties that deal with various virtual machine
technologies. Several of these tools are licensed under the GPL. One
promising library, LibVirt (http://libvirt.org) is licensed under the
LGPL. As of today, Libvirt supports KVM, Xen and QEMU. If it needs to
support OpenVZ quickly, it would be great if the userland control code
is available in a library format under the LGPL, whereas the utilities
can still be GPL. Re-inventing the wheel is a waste of time for
everyone involved since it will take considerable time to include
freshly writen code to control OpenVZ based VMs into LibVirt.
Will OpenVZ(SWSoft) be willing to release the userland control code
(most of it in the "lib" directory of the vzctl distribution) under
the LGPL so that other tools can use it efficiently?
Thanks and Regards,
Shuveb Hussain.
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| Re: Licensing Userland utils [message #11967 is a reply to message #11653] |
Fri, 13 April 2007 09:53  |
Enrico Weigelt
Messages: 31
Registered: July 2006
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* shuveb@binarykarma.com <shuveb@binarykarma.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
<snip>
> If it needs to support OpenVZ quickly, it would be great if the
> userland control code is available in a library format under the
> LGPL, whereas the utilities can still be GPL.
I'm not an author of ovz, so I don't take part in this decidion.
But IMHO this is one of the classical cases where some GPL'ed
project developed some library which actually should be LGPL'ed.
So my (insignificant) vote is: yes
BTW: it seems it could make sense to split off these libs to an
own package. If the maintainers like to have that split, just
let me know - I love those jobs ;-)
cu
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