[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit] Add ssh plugin using libssh.

[Eric Blake]

On 3/6/19 10:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 09:59:33AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 3/6/19 9:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

>>> +Parts derived from Pino Toscano’s qemu libssh driver.
>>
>> Is that a compatible license? Or I guess another way of wording it -
>> what is the license of libssh itself? The resulting ssh plugin may
>> already require a stronger license than what nbdkit proper allows, but
>> the license of the .so plugin being stronger than the license of the .c
>> files does not require the same level of care as when the license of one
>> .c file prevents refactoring code out from there into a looser licensed
>> .c file elsewhere.
> 
> The current (libssh2) block/ssh.c has:
> 
<snip>

> 
> Anyway I think that's compatible?

Sounds like a BSD license, so you should be good. (Not all of qemu is
BSD licensed, so my gut reaction to copying from qemu is to do ask - if
nothing else, now the mailing list archives why we agree it should be okay)

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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