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" On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>wrote:

How did you construct this list? It appears to list modules which are not used by libguestfs directly or indirectly, eg (picked at random):

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avltreehash-list:31:GPL avltree-list:24:GPL avltree-oset:21:GPL

Rich.

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well, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is at least one module that is used and is GPL: xvasprintf On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>wrote:

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:18:09AM +0300, Or Goshen wrote:

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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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