[Devel] Licensing Userland utils

[shuveb at binarykarma.com]

Hi,

Virtualization is going mainstream and there are several tools being  
developed by many 3rd parties that deal with various virtual machine  
technologies. Several of these tools are licensed under the GPL. One  
promising library, LibVirt (http://libvirt.org) is licensed under the  
LGPL. As of today, Libvirt supports KVM, Xen and QEMU. If it needs to  
support OpenVZ quickly, it would be great if the userland control code  
is available in a library format under the LGPL, whereas the utilities  
can still be GPL. Re-inventing the wheel is a waste of time for  
everyone involved since it will take considerable time to include  
freshly writen code to control OpenVZ based VMs into LibVirt.

Will OpenVZ(SWSoft) be willing to release the userland control code  
(most of it in the "lib" directory of the vzctl distribution) under  
the LGPL so that other tools can use it efficiently?


Thanks and Regards,
Shuveb Hussain.