Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] libxenvchan license (lGPLv2.1)
and xen/include/public/COPYING license?"):
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 05:36:23PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > I picked the list of people on this email from the git log on
> > tools/misc/libvchan/
> > (albeit this is about xen/include/public/io/libxenvchan.h).
> >
> > The problem is that the 'COPYING' file in the root directory of Xen source
> > says:
...
> > Also it is in FreeBSD (source tree): ./sys/xen/interface/io/libxenvchan.h
> >
> > That looks to be an oversigh. The commit that introduced the file is:
> > commit 1a16a3351ff2f2cf9f0cc0a27c89a0652eb8dfb4
> > Author: Daniel De Graaf <dgde...@tycho.nsa.gov>
> > Date: Thu Oct 6 19:44:40 2011 +0100
> >
> > libvchan: interdomain communications library
> >
> > As such I was wondering if the folks who wrote/checked the file in
> > could weight in on what their intention was in regards to this file?
ISTM that at the very least the libxenvchan.h file should indeed be
covered by the permissive ("BSD-style") licence.
If we intend for this library to be used in the BSDs (much like
in-kernel frontends) then the whole library should have a permissive
licence.
I did
git-log --pretty='format:%an <%ae>' xen/include/public/io/libxenvchan.h
tools/libvchan | sort -u
on stating, and got this output:
Anil Madhavapeddy <a...@recoil.org>
Daniel De Graaf <dgde...@tycho.nsa.gov>
David Scott <dave.sc...@citrix.com>
Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Jason Andryuk <andr...@aero.org>
Keir Fraser <k...@xen.org>
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marma...@invisiblethingslab.com>
Matthew Daley <mat...@gmail.com>
Olaf Hering <o...@aepfle.de>
Roger Pau Monne <roger....@entel.upc.edu>
Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
I guess the Citrix staff ought to have a common view. Lars, do we
need to consult with management or shall we just give our consent to
libvchan being permissively-licensed ?
Ian.
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