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

[Paolo Bonzini]

Hi, Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-clause is okay as the overall license of the
package, even if individual files maybe just BSD-3-clause.

The licensee is free to ignore the extra requirements of the Apache license
for files derived from crosvm; but they could do it anyway for _all_ files,
because it's already allowed by the OR.

Pailo

Il mer 22 giu 2022, 17:11 Andreea Florescu <andreea.florescu15 at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> [Resending this email from my personal email address as it seems like my
> other email got into spam for most of you :(]
>
> Hey folks,
>
> 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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