[Libguestfs] Modules in gnulib that are GPL and are used in libguestfs

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Aug 22 08:38:48 UTC 2013


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:18:09AM +0300, Or Goshen wrote:
> after creating a git clone I executed "bootstrap" and then entered
> "libguestfs/.gnulib/modules" and executed "grep -rn GPL * | grep ":GPL" |
> grep -v "build tool" > ~/GPLed"

The .gnulib subdirectory is the gnulib submodule, so it contains a
complete copy of the gnulib upstream sources.

The 'interesting' modules are ones which are copied into ../gnulib,
and then only the ones which are actually used from libguestfs library
code (not from the tools which are themselves GPLv2+).  Gnulib doesn't
exactly make it easy to determine these licensing issues.

Rich.

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