[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer 4/7] Add VirtViewerFile

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 13:21:03 UTC 2012


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:18:16PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>wrote:
> 
> > > +/* -*- Mode: C; c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- */
> > > +/*
> > > + * Virt Viewer: A virtual machine console viewer
> > > + *
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
> > > + *
> > > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > > + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> >
> > Should we use LGPL here in case we want to move that code to a library?
> >
> 
> I wanted to be consistant with the rest of virt-viewer code. I agree in
> general that it would be nicer to make virt-viewer LGPL. Daniel, do you
> mind having LGPL code for that file? what is your opinion about switching
> virt-viewer to LGPL by default?

If we did aim to make virt-viewer into a library, then we'd obviously
need to switch to LGPLv2+. In absence of such work though, I feel GPLv2+
is still appropriate.

Daniel
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