Wido, That's fantastic news!
- chip Sent from my iPhone. On Aug 11, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was contacted by Daniel Veillard from RedHat about this licensing issue and > I explained him our problem. > > A couple of hours later I got this e-mail: > > "You are receiving this mail because you are listed as a contributor > of libvrt-java. One of the project using libvirt-java, CloudStack is > now on the Apache project incubator list and the current LGPLv2+ > licence of libvirt-java makes it a problem for them to redistribute > the libvirt-java jars along with the project. > The proposal is to switch to the MIT Licence > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License > which is a fairly simple and liberal licence which would not be a > problem for inclusion in the Apache project." > > There is a good chance that libvirt-java will be re-licensed so we can > include it in the repository in binary form (correct?) > > That would resolve one big dependency! > > Wido > > On 07/06/2012 05:08 PM, Wido den Hollander wrote: >> Since the RBD thread was spinning out of control I figured it would be >> best to start a new thread: >> >> "Wido: perhaps you could produce some packages for testing? at least .debs? >> >> --David" >> >> I've been doing that today. I can now generate a libvirt-java debian >> package which should work on Debian and Ubuntu. I'll test it further and >> sent patches to libvirt so they can add it to the libvirt-java repo. >> >> We we could provide a deb, libvirt already provides an RPM and let the >> cloud-agent depend on it? >> >> That way we'll never ship the JAR inside the cloud-agent package and we >> can simply but it online. >> >> For Debian/Ubuntu I'm still voting for a APT repository where people can >> download/install the CloudStack packages from. When they install >> 'cloud-agent' they will simply also download libvirt-java from that same >> repository. >> >> I can than try to get the Deb into Debian and Ubuntu and David, you >> might get it into Fedora? >> >> Would this work? >> >> Wido >
