[Libguestfs] Modules in gnulib that are GPL and are used in libguestfs

Or Goshen oberonc at gmail.com
Thu Aug 22 08:47:32 UTC 2013


well, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is at least one module that is
used and is GPL: xvasprintf


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:18:09AM +0300, Or Goshen wrote:
> > after creating a git clone I executed "bootstrap" and then entered
> > "libguestfs/.gnulib/modules" and executed "grep -rn GPL * | grep ":GPL" |
> > grep -v "build tool" > ~/GPLed"
>
> The .gnulib subdirectory is the gnulib submodule, so it contains a
> complete copy of the gnulib upstream sources.
>
> The 'interesting' modules are ones which are copied into ../gnulib,
> and then only the ones which are actually used from libguestfs library
> code (not from the tools which are themselves GPLv2+).  Gnulib doesn't
> exactly make it easy to determine these licensing issues.
>
> Rich.
>
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