[Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd 1/5] common/utils: Copy simple vector library from nbdkit.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 01:48:31PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/27/20 1:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > This library proved useful in nbdkit where we need to construct an
> > array or vector of arbitrary objects, with the easy ability to append
> > at the end.  Wherever code uses realloc(3) to build an array of
> > objects is a candidate for replacement by this library.
> > ---
> >  Makefile.am              |   1 +
> >  common/utils/Makefile.am |  44 ++++++++++
> >  common/utils/vector.c    |  51 +++++++++++
> >  common/utils/vector.h    | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  configure.ac             |   1 +
> >  5 files changed, 274 insertions(+)
> > 
> 
> > +++ b/common/utils/Makefile.am
> > @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
> > +# nbdkit
> > +# Copyright (C) 2019 Red Hat Inc.
> > +#
> > +# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> > +# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
> > +# met:
> 
> Since we are lifting straight from nbdkit, this is fine (our one-way
> license conversion at play).  It does mean we have a risk in the
> opposite direction (any improvement made here can't easily be pushed
> back to nbdkit unless the author is okay with the difference in license).

I think we're OK as long as we keep the BSD-ish license on these
files?  That way changes made to these files (only) would be under the
same license as nbdkit.  Of course we end up with a franken-license
but at least it's not as bad as QEMU (!) and the whole thing should
still be LGPLv2+  (AIUI/IANAL/E&OE/...)

> As long as we are lifting this, should we also list automatic cleanup
> usage, where we then demand modern gcc/clang as compiler?

While I don't object to it, I didn't need automatic cleanup for this
patch so I didn't copy that one across.

Rich.

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