Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Block device and network stats (version 2)

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:37:13PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:34:57PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> > >   Ah :-) Well that's LGPL so we can probably reuse pieces of it. But
> > > I don't feel too confident relying on an installed Xen library at this
> > > point.
> > 
> > FYI, in case people didn't realize we can /use/ code from libxenstat. We 
> > can't link it though, because libxenstat links to libxc and thus the result
> > becomes GPL.
> 
> Ugh, yes. It's a been a long long time since Ian last promised to look
> at relicensing libxc sensibly. Oh well.

Re-licensing wouldn't help us either. Because it would mean libvirt could
only be used with new Xen releases, not old ones & we need to support the
entire 3.x series really.

Regards,
Dan.
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