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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Hey folks,</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><a href="mailto:afaria@redhat.com" target="_blank">afaria@redhat.com</a> reported an issue [1] with the license of some of the rust-vmm crates. In our first rust-vmm meetup we decided the license for the crates to
be BSD-3-Clause OR Apache 2.0 (as it's also specified in the meeting notes available here [2]), but when we did the implementation of the crate it looks like we wrote the license for some of the files and crates as "Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause" instead. This
license is unfortunately incompatible with projects such QEMU, and makes the rust-vmm crates impossible to use.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">With this email I would like to get your agreement to update the license to one that is compatible with QEMU and the other known customers of rust-vmm. One thing that we need to discuss is what the license should be.
As there is code in vmm-sys-util coming directly from Crosvm I don't think a Apache 2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause license is appropriate because from my understanding this would require the Crosvm code to be re-licensed as Apache 2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause as well. I would
like to propose to re-license it as BSD-3-Clause as this is compatible with the licenses of all projects.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">More details about the specific files where this is a problem are available in the issue [1].</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Thanks,</div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Andreea<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">[1] <a href="https://github.com/rust-vmm/vmm-sys-util/issues/161" target="_blank">
https://github.com/rust-vmm/vmm-sys-util/issues/161</a><br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">[2] <a href="http://lists.opendev.org/pipermail/rust-vmm/2019-May/000200.html" target="_blank">
http://lists.opendev.org/pipermail/rust-vmm/2019-May/000200.html</a></div>
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