Libvirt Rust bindings could use some work

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Mon Feb 21 15:30:28 UTC 2022


On a Monday in 2022, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 10:28:29AM +0100, Wim de With wrote:
>Licensing is a pretty fun minefield :)
>
>For example, even though libvirt-rs itself would be statically linked
>into any application that uses it, by virtue of it being a wrapper
>around the C library you'd still end up dynamically linking against
>that.
>
>I tend to agree that language bindings should follow the rest of the
>language ecosystem in terms of licensing, and for libvirt-rs
>specifically that would probably mean MIT. Perhaps we should consider
>looking into relicensing the project?
>

Alternatively, stay away from "ecosystems" that are not compatible with
copyleft.

Jano
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