virtio-win driver licensing
Hi, Can someone clarify the licensing around virtio-win drivers on oVirt 4.4.8 as the following seems to imply a RedHat paid subscrition is required when installing "virtio-win-guest-tools.exe" "2. Program License Grant. Red Hat grants User a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Program during the term of and on systems with fully-paid applicable Red Hat subscription(s) provided User may not: (a) modify, copy, or create any derivative works of the Program; (b) decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Program (except to the extent permitted by applicable law); (c) redistribute, encumber, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or otherwise transfer rights to the Program (except to the extent permitted herein); or (d) remove or alter any trademark, logo, copyright or other proprietary notices, legends, symbols or labels in the Program. Upon expiration of the term set forth above, User will promptly remove, delete or destroy all copies of the Program in its possession." Kind Regards Simon...
On 2 Sep 2021, at 14:29, simon@justconnect.ie wrote:
Hi,
Can someone clarify the licensing around virtio-win drivers on oVirt 4.4.8 as the following seems to imply a RedHat paid subscrition is required when installing "virtio-win-guest-tools.exe"
Hi Simon, can you please clarify which exe that is exactly, from where did you download it? Thanks, michal
"2. Program License Grant. Red Hat grants User a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Program during the term of and on systems with fully-paid applicable Red Hat subscription(s) provided User may not: (a) modify, copy, or create any derivative works of the Program; (b) decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Program (except to the extent permitted by applicable law); (c) redistribute, encumber, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or otherwise transfer rights to the Program (except to the extent permitted herein); or (d) remove or alter any trademark, logo, copyright or other proprietary notices, legends, symbols or labels in the Program. Upon expiration of the term set forth above, User will promptly remove, delete or destroy all copies of the Program in its possession."
Kind Regards
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It's the one distributed with the engine: /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.9.16.iso "2. Virtio-win licence: This License Agreement ("License") applies to the VirtIO paravirtualized drivers for Windows(R) ("virtio-win") software ("Program") and any related updates or patches to the Program regardless of how you ("User") obtain such updates or patches. 1. Intellectual Property Rights. The Program is owned by Red Hat and others and is protected under copyright and other laws. Title to the Program or to any copy, modification, or merged portion shall remain with the aforementioned. The "Red Hat" trademark and the "Shadowman" logo are registered trademarks of Red Hat in the U.S. and other countries. 2. Program License Grant. Red Hat grants User a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Program during the term of and on systems with fully-paid applicable Red Hat subscription(s) provided User may not: (a) modify, copy, or create any derivative works of the Program; (b) decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Program (except to the extent permitted by applicable law); (c) redistribute, encumber, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or otherwise transfer rights to the Program (except to the extent permitted herein); or (d) remove or alter any trademark, logo, copyright or other proprietary notices, legends, symbols or labels in the Program. Upon expiration of the term set forth above, User will promptly remove, delete or destroy all copies of the Program in its possession."
This appears to be the source code: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows And the license for the source: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/blob/master/LICENSE On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 11:06 AM <simon@justconnect.ie> wrote:
Does anyone have an update on this please? _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/R3Q4P6SGYIDN2P...
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:14 AM <simon@justconnect.ie> wrote:
It's the one distributed with the engine: /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.9.16.iso
I tried to install this package on RHEL 8.5 (nightly) build: # dnf info virtio-win Last metadata expiration check: 17:32:51 ago on Fri 10 Sep 2021 01:25:44 IDT. Installed Packages Name : virtio-win Version : 1.9.18 Release : 2.el8 Architecture : noarch Size : 780 M Source : virtio-win-1.9.18-2.el8.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : appstream Summary : VirtIO para-virtualized drivers for Windows(R) URL : http://www.redhat.com/ This looks like a bug, this URL is not the URL of the virtio-win project. License : Red Hat Proprietary and BSD-3-Clause and Apache and GPLv2 I'm not sure what this means, a license cannot be Proprietary and BSD and GPL at the same time. It can be one *or* another. I think this is a RHEL bug to report a license in this way. Description : VirtIO para-virtualized Windows(R) drivers for 32-bit and 64-bit : Windows(R) guests. However after mounting this iso I see only BSD-3-Clause license: # mount -o loop /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.iso /tmp/virtio-win/ # cat /tmp/virtio-win/virtio-win_license.txt Copyright 2009-2021 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Copyright 2016 Google, Inc. Copyright 2016 Virtuozzo, Inc. Copyright 2007 IBM Corporation Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. This also matches the project license mentioned by Scot: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/blob/master/LICENSE Yash, can you help to make this more clear? Nir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 7:15 PM Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:14 AM <simon@justconnect.ie> wrote:
It's the one distributed with the engine: /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.9.16.iso
I tried to install this package on RHEL 8.5 (nightly) build:
Correction, tested on Centos 8 Stream host with recent ovirt-release-master: # rpm -q ovirt-release-master ovirt-release-master-4.4.8-0.0.master.20210904011127.git42ad2d6.el8.noarch
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:28 PM Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 7:15 PM Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:14 AM <simon@justconnect.ie> wrote:
It's the one distributed with the engine:
/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.9.16.iso
I tried to install this package on RHEL 8.5 (nightly) build:
Correction, tested on Centos 8 Stream host with recent ovirt-release-master:
# rpm -q ovirt-release-master ovirt-release-master-4.4.8-0.0.master.20210904011127.git42ad2d6.el8.noarch
Hi Nir, Thank you for pointing out the error in the licensing. I will work with the Virt Windows team and have them address it. Thanks, Yash -- Yash Mankad Product Owner - RHEL Virtualization (He/Him/His)
Thanks Yash/Nir, I posted a follow up before I saw your response. I'll wait for your follow up. Kind Regards Simon...
Hi All, Just to clarify, when mounting the ISO and installing 'virtio-win-guest-tools.exe' on a Windows VM, the License file that is installed on the VM is as per my initial comments. The license file you are referring to is 'virtio-win_license.txt' in the root of the ISO. Should the license file contained in the .exe have been replaced by the one in the root? Kind Regards Simon...
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