Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Block device and network stats (version 2)
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:37:13PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:34:57PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Ah :-) Well that's LGPL so we can probably reuse pieces of it. But
> > I don't feel too confident relying on an installed Xen library at this
> > point.
>
> FYI, in case people didn't realize we can /use/ code from libxenstat. We
> can't link it though, because libxenstat links to libxc and thus the result
> becomes GPL.
Ugh, yes. It's a been a long long time since Ian last promised to look
at relicensing libxc sensibly. Oh well.
Re-licensing wouldn't help us either. Because it would mean libvirt could
only be used with new Xen releases, not old ones & we need to support the
entire 3.x series really.
Regards,
Dan.
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