On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 07:44:21PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 3:53 PM Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 10:26:55PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > > Add README.md and LICENSE (copy of COPYING.LIB) file to the module
> >
> > Typo in the subject line (but LICENSE is correct here in the message
> > body)
> 
> I'll fix in v2.
> 
> > > directory. This helps people consuming this code from the tarball, which
> > > seems to be the only way to consume now.
> > >
> > > Preview in gitlab:
> > > https://gitlab.com/nirs/libnbd/-/tree/a6f4ff085022ed1e903518f13e0789f0796733d6
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd/LICENSE   | 508 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > Should we use a git symlink, instead of duplicating the file?
> 
> Based on your next comment we need to modify the new license.
> 
> > >  golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd/README.md |  44 ++
> > >  2 files changed, 552 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd/LICENSE
> > >  create mode 100644 golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd/README.md
> > >
> > > diff --git a/golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd/LICENSE 
> > > b/golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd/LICENSE
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..c7c3dcf
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd/LICENSE
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,508 @@
> > > +This is the general license covering libnbd.  The example code (in the
> > > +examples/ subdirectory) is distributed under a different license, see
> > > +examples/LICENSE-FOR-EXAMPLES.
> >
> > Does the golang directory structure have an examples/ subdirectory, or
> > is this wording only applicable when reading the file from the top
> > level?
> 
> The examples are located at golang/src/examples while this license file
> is at golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd, so this note is not really needed.
> 
> But the tests (libnbd_*_test.go), are actually GPL. I'll replace the
> note about the
> examples with a note about the tests.
> 
> Do we need LICENSE.tests for this? It seems that licensing is more complicated
> than needed in this area. Should we re-license the tests to LGPL?

We can relicense the tests to LGPL if it makes things easier.

Rich.

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