RE: [Xen-users] Re: Xen and gnu gpl

[Patrick Archibal <bugpb60@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In first, thanks for all these informations.
 
It seems you have a good knowledge of xen. Maybe, you know big mile stone of the project ??
I have just two date : :o(
2003 --> creation of xen
2005-- > xen support virtualisation like intel vt et amd pacifica
I dont have more informations. I'm looking for six or seven milestone for my study ?
Do you have more informations about that ?
 
Thanks
Best regards
Patrick
 
 
> From: mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen and gnu gpl
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:15:11 +0000
> CC: chris.ace@xxxxxxx
>
> On Monday 09 March 2009 10:02:34 Christian Tramnitz wrote:
> > Im not an lawyer either but I think this has nothing to do with "derived
> > work" and/or kernel vs. userspace but rather with the second answer: the
> > fact that Citrix owns Xen and releases it (kind of) using different
> > licenses, for a more detailed explanation see:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-licensing
>
> Well, I mentioned that possibility for completeness but the reason that I
> think "derived works" vs "mere aggregation" is important is that Citrix
> actually do not own the copyrights on all of Xen. Some of the code in the
> hypervisor comes from Linux, for instance. Some of it comes from external
> contributors.
>
> They did actually rewrite much of the userspace tools (Xend, XenStored)
> themselves for their closed-source product - therefore they hold all the
> copyrights on those tools - but the hypervisor they use is still GPL and can't
> easily / practically be closed off, even if they wanted to do that.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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