On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:00:57AM -0700, Edison Su wrote: > Regarding to bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-2481, > there is no vhd-util installed in system vm template, thus certain storage > related operations failed. > As discussed before, vhd-util binary is licensed under BSD and > GPL(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-30), it should be ok to > included in system vm template, right?
Edison - The issue isn't if we can include it in a built system VM really. We are building those from a number of GPL projects (obviously including the OS itself). The issue with the legal stuff is how we tie to that software and if we intend to distribute it from ASF infra. As long as we don't store the utility in our version control, and do not actually ship it from ASF hardware, we can consider it OK IMO. The inclusion of that utility will need to be part of the system VM build config, which we do store in the repo obviously. We are shipping system VMs from the Citrix S3 account today, and will probably switch to Wido's hosting server (or similar) for the future. This means that it's not an ASF issue... and frankly the OS being distributed itself would be a larger problem than what packages are installed in that OS. Make sense? -chip
