Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-cloudstack-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-cloudstack-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21724DB91 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 89615 invoked by uid 500); 15 Aug 2012 05:31:08 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-cloudstack-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 89585 invoked by uid 500); 15 Aug 2012 05:31:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cloudstack-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 89565 invoked by uid 99); 15 Aug 2012 05:31:08 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:31:08 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of Chiradeep.Vittal@citrix.com designates 66.165.176.89 as permitted sender) Received: from [66.165.176.89] (HELO SMTP.CITRIX.COM) (66.165.176.89) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:31:02 +0000 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,771,1336363200"; d="scan'208";a="34690443" Received: from sjcpmailmx02.citrite.net ([10.216.14.75]) by FTLPIPO01.CITRIX.COM with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-MD5; 15 Aug 2012 01:30:40 -0400 Received: from SJCPMAILBOX01.citrite.net ([10.216.4.72]) by SJCPMAILMX02.citrite.net ([10.216.14.75]) with mapi; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:30:40 -0700 From: Chiradeep Vittal To: CloudStack DeveloperList Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:33:39 -0700 Subject: Re: [ASFCS40] [DISCUSS] System VM strategy Thread-Topic: [ASFCS40] [DISCUSS] System VM strategy Thread-Index: Ac16pxp/5BJQumAqRTmUSdoOeZF/Hw== Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.13.0.110805 acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 On 8/14/12 6:20 AM, "Chip Childers" wrote: >I'm trying to kick off conversation with this thread... > >I know that people have been looking at the System VM licensing and >distribution issues from various angles, but I'm not sure we came to a >consensus on how to deal with the system VMs overall. > >AFAIK, we have two outstanding issues: > >1 - We have a bunch of configuration / code in the patches folder of >our source tree that *may* have licensing issues. IANAL, but config files that do not have license text already should not have any issue? Especially since there is no other way to configure the software? About half the config files are original work (not derived), the rest can be supplied as patch files to the originals. Not sure that supplying patches is any different from distributing modified config files though. >2 - We need to initiate a request to ASF Legal for permission to >distribute a system VM template (including the GPL OS and software) >from ASF infrastructure, OR figure out how the community can >distribute valid system VMs outside of ASF. Wido has some good suggestions here: http://goo.gl/EuUoQ 1. Host convenience binaries on say Sourceforge 2. Supply the build script so that folks can build it themselves.