3:29 p.m.
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...
6:25 p.m.
On 2 Sep 2021, at 14:29, simon(a)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
Simon...
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2:09 a.m.
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."
6:14 p.m.
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(a)justconnect.ie> wrote:
Does anyone have an update on this please?
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7:15 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:14 AM <simon(a)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
7:28 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 7:15 PM Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:14 AM <simon(a)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
5:54 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:28 PM Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 7:15 PM Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:14 AM <simon(a)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
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1:09 p.m.
Thanks Yash/Nir,
I posted a follow up before I saw your response. I'll wait for your follow up.
Kind Regards
Simon...
6:41 p.m.
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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