[libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] [RFC] Parallels Server Bare Metal driver stub

[Dmitry Mishin]

> libvirt will be statically linked with SDK library
Sorry, I meant dynamically but at compilation stage instead of dlopen()

On Friday, September 30, 2011 12:21:05 PM Dmitry Mishin wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 06:10:19 PM Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > >   Any pointers ? All I found was
> > > >   http://www.parallels.com/ptn/download/sdk/
> > > > 
> > > > and it's quite silent on code availability and Licence for the
> > > > libraries.
> > > 
> > > It has a proprietary license and not open sourced now. Is it a problem?
> > 
> > If the license is not LGPLv2+ compatible, then it can't be used
> > by libvirt, regardless of whether it is directly linked, or
> > dlopened. In other words using 'dlopen' doesn't magically solve
> > the license compatibility problem.
> 
> Will we solve the issue if libvirt will be statically linked with SDK
> library (as Daniel requests) and SDK library itself will be distributed in
> binary form under BSD license conditions (which is LGPLv2 compatible)?

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Thanks,
Dmitry.
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