[Rust-VMM] Licensing Issue in rust-vmm crates

[Florescu, Andreea]

Hey folks,

afaria at redhat.com<mailto:afaria at redhat.com> 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.

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.

More details about the specific files where this is a problem are available in the issue [1].

Thanks,
Andreea

[1] https://github.com/rust-vmm/vmm-sys-util/issues/161
[2] http://lists.opendev.org/pipermail/rust-vmm/2019-May/000200.html




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