[Kimchi-devel] About licensing

Aline Manera alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Sep 8 15:40:28 UTC 2015



On 28/08/2015 13:28, Frederic Bonnard wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd need help to clarify which file has what license.
>  From the COPYING  file we can say that :
>
> Files: *
> License: LGPL-3.0
>
> Files: ui/*
> License: Apache-2.0
>
> ui/spice-html5 and ui/libs are different
>
> But we also have the following :
>
> Files: contrib/*
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: plugins/sample/i18n.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: plugins/sample/ui/*
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014
> License: Apache-2.0
>
> Files: src/kimchi/auth.py
>    src/kimchi/disks.py
>    src/kimchi/distroloader.py
>    src/kimchi/isoinfo.py
>    src/kimchi/mockmodel.py
>    src/kimchi/netinfo.py
>    src/kimchi/osinfo.py
>    src/kimchi/root.py
>    src/kimchi/utils.py
>    src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py
>    src/kimchi/vnc.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2013-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/basemodel.py
>    src/kimchi/imageinfo.py
>    src/kimchi/iscsi.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/control/base.py
>    src/kimchi/control/debugreports.py
>    src/kimchi/control/host.py
>    src/kimchi/control/networks.py
>    src/kimchi/control/storagepools.py
>    src/kimchi/control/storagevolumes.py
>    src/kimchi/control/templates.py
>    src/kimchi/control/vms.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2013-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/control/cpuinfo.py
>    src/kimchi/control/peers.py
>    src/kimchi/control/storageservers.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/control/vm/*
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/control/vm/ifaces.py
>    src/kimchi/control/vm/storages.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/i18n.py
>    src/kimchi/kvmusertests.py
>    src/kimchi/proxy.py
>    src/kimchi/repositories.py
>    src/kimchi/swupdate.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/model/*
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/model/__init__.py
>    src/kimchi/model/groups.py
>    src/kimchi/model/hostdev.py
>    src/kimchi/model/interfaces.py
>    src/kimchi/model/libvirtconnection.py
>    src/kimchi/model/libvirtstoragepool.py
>    src/kimchi/model/plugins.py
>    src/kimchi/model/storageservers.py
>    src/kimchi/model/storagetargets.py
>    src/kimchi/model/tasks.py
>    src/kimchi/model/users.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/model/featuretests.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2013-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/sslcert.py
> Copyright: 2004-2005, OSAF. / IBM, Corp. 2013-2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/xmlutils/*
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/xmlutils/cpu.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/xmlutils/interface.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: src/kimchi/yumparser.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: tests/*
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: tests/iso_gen.py
>    tests/test_mockmodel.py
>    tests/test_model.py
>    tests/test_osinfo.py
>    tests/test_rest.py
>    tests/test_server.py
>    tests/test_vmtemplate.py
>    tests/utils.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2013-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: tests/test_authorization.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: tests/test_exception.py
>    tests/test_networkxml.py
>    tests/test_plugin.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2013-2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: tests/test_rollbackcontext.py
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
> Files: ui/pages/*
> Copyright: IBM, Corp. 2014-2015
> License: LGPL-2.1+
>
>
> Should these be LGPL-3 ?
> Note : plugins/sample/ui/* is apache-2.0, maybe it's right because in a ui dir ?
> Also, I just wanted to make sure, kimchi is LGPL-3 not LGPL-3+, right ?
> Thanks,

Each file into Kimchi source code has the license header. The overall 
Kimchi license is described in COPYING file.
The backend is LGPLv3 and frontend Apache v2.

> Fred
>
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