Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] [RFC] Parallels Server Bare Metal driver stub
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:21:05PM +0400, Dmitry Mishin wrote:
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 06:10:19 PM Daniel P. Berrange
wrote:
> > > Any pointers ? All I found was
> > > http://www.parallels.com/ptn/download/sdk/
> > >
> > > and it's quite silent on code availability and Licence for the
> > > libraries.
> >
> > It has a proprietary license and not open sourced now. Is it a problem?
>
> If the license is not LGPLv2+ compatible, then it can't be used
> by libvirt, regardless of whether it is directly linked, or
> dlopened. In other words using 'dlopen' doesn't magically solve
> the license compatibility problem.
Will we solve the issue if libvirt will be statically linked with SDK library
(as Daniel requests) and SDK library itself will be distributed in binary form
under BSD license conditions (which is LGPLv2 compatible)?
Yes, linking to a BSD licensed library is fine from a licensing point
of view.
Regards,
Daniel
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