[Libguestfs] New Rust bindings for nbdkit
alan somers
asomers at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 14:11:47 UTC 2020
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:04 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 02:22:32PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 04:19:08PM -0600, alan somers wrote:
> > > The existing Rust bindings for nbdkit aren't very idiomatic Rust, and
> they
> > > are missing a lot of features. So I've rewritten them. The new
> bindings
> > > aren't backwards compatible, but I doubt that's a problem. Most
> likely,
> > > nobody has tried to use them yet, since the crate hasn't even
> published to
> > > crates.io. Please review the attached patch.
> > > -Alan
>
> > Other issues:
> >
> > * The license removed this clause:
> >
> > -// * Neither the name of Red Hat nor the names of its contributors
> may be
> > -// used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
> without
> > -// specific prior written permission.
> >
> > I believe this removal simply makes the license even more
> > permissive, so that's fine. However I will check with our legal
> > people. Also you should add license headers to the new files
> > plugins/rust/tests/*.rs. Essentially every file should have a
> > license, and correct licensing is very important to us.
>
> This change is replacing 3-clause BSD with 2-clause BSD. Shouldn't cuase
> any actual difference for consumers, but seems like a needless change to
> be making.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
My reasoning was that the 2-clause license is preferred for new code (at
least in every other community where I've active), and this plugin is new
code. But I can add the 3rd clause back if libguestfs likes it.
-Alan
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