Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] introduce BSD-licensed block driver for "raw"

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 09:59:07AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Paolo asked me to write such a driver based on his textual specification
> > alone. The first patch captures his email in full, the rest re-quotes
> > parts that are being implemented.
> >
> > The tree compiles at each patch. The series passes "make check-block".
> >
> > "block/raw.c" is not removed because I wanted to keep it out of my
> > series and out of my brain.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I couldn't care less if the raw block driver was public
> > domain or AGPLv3+, as long as it qualifies as free software. I'm only
> > trying to do what Paolo asked of me.
> 
> Generally speaking, rewriting parts of QEMU to be !GPL is something I
> would strongly, strongly oppose.
> 
> I believe that Paolo had a good reason for this though.  I suppose the
> logic is that we want to expose a "libqemublock" that libvirt can use such
> that it can stop parsing qcow2 files.
> 
> Now libvirt just needs LGPLv2+, right?

LGPLv2+ is fine, but regardless of license, libvirt won't use any
libqemublock.so library as long as it links to glib with abort on
OOM behaviour.

Daniel
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