Hi,
I was contacted by Daniel Veillard from RedHat about this licensing
issue and I explained him our problem.
A couple of hours later I got this e-mail:
"You are receiving this mail because you are listed as a contributor
of libvrt-java. One of the project using libvirt-java, CloudStack is
now on the Apache project incubator list and the current LGPLv2+
licence of libvirt-java makes it a problem for them to redistribute
the libvirt-java jars along with the project.
The proposal is to switch to the MIT Licence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
which is a fairly simple and liberal licence which would not be a
problem for inclusion in the Apache project."
There is a good chance that libvirt-java will be re-licensed so we can
include it in the repository in binary form (correct?)
That would resolve one big dependency!
Wido
On 07/06/2012 05:08 PM, Wido den Hollander wrote:
Since the RBD thread was spinning out of control I figured it would be
best to start a new thread:
"Wido: perhaps you could produce some packages for testing? at least .debs?
--David"
I've been doing that today. I can now generate a libvirt-java debian
package which should work on Debian and Ubuntu. I'll test it further and
sent patches to libvirt so they can add it to the libvirt-java repo.
We we could provide a deb, libvirt already provides an RPM and let the
cloud-agent depend on it?
That way we'll never ship the JAR inside the cloud-agent package and we
can simply but it online.
For Debian/Ubuntu I'm still voting for a APT repository where people can
download/install the CloudStack packages from. When they install
'cloud-agent' they will simply also download libvirt-java from that same
repository.
I can than try to get the Deb into Debian and Ubuntu and David, you
might get it into Fedora?
Would this work?
Wido
