On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:33:17PM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote: > > > On 05/21/2013 09:16 PM, Wido den Hollander wrote: > >Hi, > > > >In the rbd-snap-clone [0] branch I'm working on the new RBD features > >like snapshotting, cloning and deploying System VMs on RBD. > > > >To do this correctly I wrote Java bindings for librbd and librados (part > >of the Ceph project). > > > >These bindings [1] are just like libvirt-java just JNA bindings for > >these libraries. Since these bindings aren't in Maven central I created > >a Maven repository on Ceph.com [2] and I added it to the pom.xml of the > >KVM plugin for the Agent. > > > >Can we accept this as a dependency? It's just a Maven dependency which > >doesn't include any binary code into the Git repo. > > > >The bindings are currently GPLv2 licensed since that's what Ceph uses, > >but does this conflict with the Apache project? I want to make sure it > >will be included in the OSS builds of CloudStack, so I can change the > >license if required. > > I have to correct myself here. The license is LGPLv2 for both Ceph > and the Java bindings. > > Wido >
This is going to be problematic with that license. See: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html We put things like this in the non-oss build OR specify that they need to be installed prior to our software being installed / built (calling them system dependencies). It would be *much* easier for it to be re-licensed with a license that the ASF has approved as compatible with ASLv2. > > > >I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not so sure about this. > > > >Thoughts? > > > >Wido > > > >[0]: > >https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/rbd-snap-clone > > > >[1]: https://github.com/wido/rados-java > >[2]: http://ceph.com/maven/ >
