From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:48:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im1ohcs3.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmvxulx9.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> I would rather have nothing depend on ZFS by default, but we could have
> “libvirt-with-zfs” etc.
>
> I agree that GNOME Boxes and libvirt should not depend on ZFS by default
> because (1) ZFS is an optional feature and probably not widely used, (2)
> ZFS combination with GPL code is problematic and as such we’d rather
> limit it to a minimum, and (3) having users systematically build a
> dependency locally should be avoided in general.
>
> WDYT?
I agree that having a separate 'libvirt-with-zfs' would be preferable.
I see now that there's a problem even on the userspace side:
'virt-manager' is a GPLv2+-licensed program based on 'libvirt'. If I
understand correctly, it would be a GPL violation for us to distribute
'virt-manager' linked with CDDL-licensed component(s) of ZFS.
For now, I think that commit 61ccd756e5ff73b2f8dc3449df537f1c5adb5872
should be reverted until we can evaluate the situation more carefully.
What do you think?
Regards,
Mark
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-05 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-03 19:33 Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS? Mark H Weaver
2021-07-03 19:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-05 9:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-05 17:48 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2021-07-07 11:59 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-11 20:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-07-07 11:34 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-03 20:01 ` Maxime Devos
2021-07-03 20:16 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-03 20:46 ` Domagoj Stolfa
2021-07-03 21:38 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-03 21:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-11-20 1:09 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-20 2:34 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-11-21 1:33 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-21 10:54 ` ZFS part of Guix? RFC? (Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-22 16:50 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-22 18:10 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-23 16:37 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-23 17:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-23 23:50 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-24 0:45 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-24 12:03 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-24 12:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-24 12:51 ` zimoun
2021-11-24 14:40 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-24 20:25 ` zimoun
2021-11-24 13:33 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-24 20:02 ` ZFS part of Guix? RFC? Vagrant Cascadian
2021-11-26 15:28 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-26 20:02 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-26 20:34 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-11-27 15:19 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-30 15:22 ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-11-30 21:22 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-24 1:24 ` ZFS part of Guix? RFC? (Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?) zimoun
2021-11-24 17:24 ` Leo Famulari
2021-11-21 22:18 ` Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS? zimoun
2021-07-04 20:11 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-07-05 10:21 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2021-07-05 17:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-07-07 12:20 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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