On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:37:27PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 01:48:31PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 10/27/20 1:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > +++ b/common/utils/Makefile.am > > > @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ > > > +# nbdkit > > > +# Copyright (C) 2019 Red Hat Inc. > > > +# > > > +# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > > > +# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are > > > +# met: > > > > Since we are lifting straight from nbdkit, this is fine (our one-way > > license conversion at play). It does mean we have a risk in the > > opposite direction (any improvement made here can't easily be pushed > > back to nbdkit unless the author is okay with the difference in license). > > I think we're OK as long as we keep the BSD-ish license on these > files? That way changes made to these files (only) would be under the > same license as nbdkit. Of course we end up with a franken-license > but at least it's not as bad as QEMU (!) and the whole thing should > still be LGPLv2+ (AIUI/IANAL/E&OE/...)
Should add that this is not the first file copied from nbdkit -- see libnbd.git/common/include/. We've had a couple of nbdkit files in there for quite a while. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs