[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] Properly use LGPL

The FSF has some recommendations on how to use the LGPL, and we weren't always following them. This series tries to clean things up to avoid any confusion on our intent - our source code is LGPLv2+ (except for vbox which is LGPLv2-only); the resulting binaries might be under a different license based on what they link with (for example, libvirt_parthelper is GPLv3+, and a future patch will make libvirtd GPLv2-only so as to let libvirt.so become LGPLv2+ instead of its current polluted LGPLv2-only when built with vbox). One thing I was unable to figure out: when switching between branches, older branches still create a non-versioned COPYING file; git doesn't like to move to this commit unless you manually remove that file first. Unfortunately, I don't know of any clean way to avoid that problem, unless we _don't_ version-control COPYING and instead copy it out of .gnulib/docs/COPYINGv2 as needed (similar to how configure.ac used to copy it from COPYING.LIB before this series). If having to manually remove COPYING before switching branches proves too annoying, and if you agree that libvirt.git can get away without COPYING (since it is really only tarballs that NEED it), then I can tweak patch 2 to keep populating COPYING at configure time, rather than version-controlling it. Eric Blake (4): maint: use LGPL correctly maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL maint: refer to correct license file maint: enforce correct copyright usage .gitignore | 1 - COPYING | 339 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ COPYING.LIB => COPYING.LESSER | 0 Makefile.am | 17 +- cfg.mk | 12 +- configure.ac | 23 +- daemon/Makefile.am | 15 +- docs/Makefile.am | 17 +- docs/schemas/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/apparmor/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/domain-events/events-c/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/dominfo/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/domsuspend/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/hellolibvirt/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/openauth/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/python/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/systemtap/Makefile.am | 17 +- examples/xml/nwfilter/Makefile.am | 17 +- gnulib/lib/Makefile.am | 17 +- gnulib/tests/Makefile.am | 17 +- include/Makefile.am | 17 +- include/libvirt/Makefile.am | 17 +- libvirt.spec.in | 6 +- python/Makefile.am | 15 +- python/tests/Makefile.am | 17 +- src/Makefile.am | 15 +- src/rpc/gendispatch.pl | 16 ++ src/rpc/genprotocol.pl | 16 +- src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v2_2.h | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v3_0.h | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v3_1.h | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v3_2.h | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_0.h | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_1.h | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_V2_2.c | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_V3_0.c | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_V3_1.c | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_XPCOMCGlue.c | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_XPCOMCGlue.h | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_driver.c | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_driver.h | 2 +- src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c | 2 +- src/xen/xend_internal.c | 16 +- src/xen/xend_internal.h | 22 +- tests/Makefile.am | 15 +- tools/Makefile.am | 15 +- 46 files changed, 765 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) create mode 100644 COPYING rename COPYING.LIB => COPYING.LESSER (100%) -- 1.8.1.4