On Aug 10, 2012, at 3:04 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] >>> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 7:12 AM >>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Cc: Chip Childers (chip.child...@sungard.com); Ewan Mellor; Alex Huang >>> Subject: Re: [ASF40] License header update for Friday August 10 >>> >>>> For XenServerJava, my suggestion is this. The reason why we modify it is >>>> to >>> put in client timeouts so that CloudStack is decoupled from Xapi when Xapi >>> behaves badly. For normal operations, it's not necessary. We should just >>> remove the directory and use the one from XenServer and force our changes >>> to be upstreamed to XenServer. Is the XenServer java client stub license >>> compatible with apache? >>>> >>> >>> I tried this with the native xenserverjava packages (both 5.6.100 and >>> 6.0) and it breaks the build. >> >> If it's worthwhile (library license is compatible), I'll spend some time >> tonight to fix it. >> >> --Alex >>> >>> --David > > At present it isn't, (Xenserverjava is copyleft) and no one from > upstream XenServer is answering my emails regarding the status of > their proposed relicensing. > > --David >
Ewan, You've stated previously that you were working on this, and we've been anxiously waiting to hear back from you. Have you been able to get anywhere with the XenServer team? Even an indication that they are considering the change would help immensely!