Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit] Add ssh plugin using libssh.
On 3/6/19 10:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 09:59:33AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 3/6/19 9:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> +Parts derived from Pino Toscano’s qemu libssh driver.
>
> Is that a compatible license? Or I guess another way of wording it -
> what is the license of libssh itself? The resulting ssh plugin may
> already require a stronger license than what nbdkit proper allows, but
> the license of the .so plugin being stronger than the license of the .c
> files does not require the same level of care as when the license of one
> .c file prevents refactoring code out from there into a looser licensed
> .c file elsewhere.
The current (libssh2) block/ssh.c has:
<snip>
Anyway I think that's compatible?
Sounds like a BSD license, so you should be good. (Not all of qemu is
BSD licensed, so my gut reaction to copying from qemu is to do ask - if
nothing else, now the mailing list archives why we agree it should be okay)
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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