On Tue, 6 May 2014, Sven Kieske wrote: > Quickly scanning some of the files I found some GPLed > and some under a weird IBM license (which allows redistribution). > > I didn't find anything which does not permit redistribution. > Maybe you can point me in the right direction? I just looked at the license on the rpm. It is located at /usr/share/doc/virtio-win-1.6.8/virtio-win_license.txt I did not look at the individual licenses. Regards, -- Tom me@xxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address me123@xxxxxxxxxx > > CC'ing Itamar who can maybe give some insight into virtio-win > licenses. > > Am 06.05.2014 14:56, schrieb me@xxxxxxxxxx: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 5 May 2014, Sven Kieske wrote: >> >>> Am 03.05.2014 22:32, schrieb SilverTip257: >>>> Per the RH docs, a RHN subscription is necessary for the virtio-win package. >>> >>> well the ovirt-project[1] >>> will provide this package "soon" (tm). >>> >>> meanwhile you could try the following: >>> (this is a quote from the ovirt-users ML) >>> >>>> download the src rpm from >>>> http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHOS/SRPMS/ >>>> build the rpm >>>> rpmbuild --rebuild virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6.src.rpm >>>> install the rpm >>>> rpm -Uhv ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6.noarch.rpm >>> >>> I didn't test it myself, so I don't know if it really works, but >>> "it should" (ymmv). >> >> That is what I was looking for. I never thought to look there. Thank you. >> >>> >>> [1] http://www.ovirt.org >>> >>> PS: ovirt is the upstream project of red hat enterprise virtualization >>> it would be cool to see some integration work with the centos virt sig! >> >> I agree that would be nice but as I read the license, it cannot be >> redistributed. Obviously, Red Hat can do as they wish, since it is already >> on the ovirt site. I wonder if they will extend that to CentOS? >> >> OTOH, it is trivial to build the rpm, so I am not sure it is worth putting >> lot of effort into it. The hard part was finding the src.rpm and that was only >> hard because I was looking in the wrong place. >> >> Regards, >> > > _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
