[ovs-dev] [patch 0/3] debian: some more changes

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 02:44 +0100, Simon Horman wrote: 
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:34:49AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 05:14:00PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:12:26AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:40:34AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:06:11PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > > > I have a few more changes for the debian packaging.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks.  They all looked good.  I pushed them.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > I am currently testing 1.1.0-pre2 packages with a view to uploading
> > > > > > to either unstable or experimental. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm in favor of it.  I'd prefer unstable.
> > > > 
> > > > Great, I'll do an upload ASAP as I can't come up with a particularly
> > > > good reason not to. After that the packages will go in the NEW queue
> > > > and be manually acked or nacked by one of the ftpmasters. In the
> > > > case of the latter it'll typically mean that some specific changes
> > > > to the packaging are requested. I'll this list up to date on how things go.
> > > 
> > > One thing does come to mind: There are some files in xenserver that
> > > don't have a free license.  Are you deleting them from the source
> > > tarball?
> > 
> > No, I wasn't but that is a good point.
> > I will do so.
> 
> Do you think it would be best to remove the entire xenserver/ directory?
> 
> If not, I propose removing the following files:
> 
> usr_lib_xsconsole_plugins-base_XSFeatureVSwitch.py: Citrix proprietary

I think this was largely written by folks at Nicira, wasn't it? Perhaps
the license is just a hangover from whichever plugin was used as the
template?

In any case xsconsole itself has been relicensed under GPLv2 as part of
XCP (see http://xenbits.xen.org/xapi/xsconsole.hg) so perhaps this
plugin could be too?

> usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_refresh-xs-network-uuids: No license specified

FWIW I think this was written by Nicira too.

> uuid.py: No license specified

Seems to be unused?

Ian.