Wouter, On 12 Mar 2013, at 08:34, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:26:01PM +0000, Alex Bligh wrote: >> Wouter, >> >> On 11 Mar 2013, at 13:28, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> >>> (note, I can't turn it into an LGPL library without reimplementing or >>> sending out huge swaths of emails asking for permission, so it'll >>> probably be GPL) >> >> I understand the issues here, but that would prevent it being used in >> QEMU, > > On what do you base that statement? AIUI, qemu already is GPLv2, so this > wouldn't be impossible for them. Partly misremembering the QEMU licence. I remembered it isn't GPLv2, but it's GPL, not BSD as I thought: http://wiki.qemu.org/License I can't remember whether incorporating GPLv2 code into GPL code is possible or not. I /think/ not, I think it's the other way around that works. So I think I might be technically right, but not for the reasons I thought! >> and was the whole reason I didn't do it myself and send the >> code back (if you remember a period when I was sending rather a lot >> of patches). >> >> If anyone would be interested, I have (well had) new-style negotiation >> running completely non-blocking from a select loop, written from >> the spec rather than the code (at least in part as I couldn't >> figure out what the code was doing), as a state machine. I could look >> into open sourcing this (we'd probably just MIT/BSD licence it). I don't >> really have bandwidth to turn it into a library. It was mildly fiddly, >> but I wouldn't classify it as difficult. > > It sounds interesting, yes, but I probably don't have the bandwidth > myself. OK. I may have a look at tidying it up. -- Alex Bligh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
