[ovs-dev] [patch 0/3] debian: some more changes

[Simon Horman]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:10:41AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:15:45AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 02:44 +0100, Simon Horman wrote: 
> > > usr_lib_xsconsole_plugins-base_XSFeatureVSwitch.py: Citrix proprietary
> > 
> > I think this was largely written by folks at Nicira, wasn't it? Perhaps
> > the license is just a hangover from whichever plugin was used as the
> > template?
> 
> Yes, I like to be cautious about that kind of thing.
> 
> > In any case xsconsole itself has been relicensed under GPLv2 as part of
> > XCP (see http://xenbits.xen.org/xapi/xsconsole.hg) so perhaps this
> > plugin could be too?
> 
> This is great news.  I did not know that xsconsole had been relicensed.
> When I asked about it some time ago, there were no plans to do so.
> 
> I will send out a patch series momentarily to fix this up.  Ian, I would
> appreciate your Acked-by on the relicensing.
> 
> (Why is there no link from http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source.html
> to this repository?  I would have known about it earlier, if there had
> been.)
> 
> > > usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_refresh-xs-network-uuids: No license specified
> > 
> > FWIW I think this was written by Nicira too.
> 
> It's a trivial one-liner and I didn't realize it needed a license.  I've
> added that to my series too.
> 
> > > uuid.py: No license specified
> > 
> > Seems to be unused?
> 
> It gets installed by the RPM and used at runtime.  It's copied literally
> from Python 2.5, so it is free.  I've added a patch to my series to put
> the license at the top of the file.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben.

Thanks Ben, thanks Ian,

it sounds like things are now more or less clear on the licensing for
Debian front.