Re: [sleuthkit-developers] A question regarding the licensing of TSK

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

Based on:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

It says that the IBM / Common Public licenses are not compatible with  
GPL.  It has been a while since I read the GPL (especially the new  
one), but I think that means that it cannot be used.

brian


On Jul 4, 2007, at 3:24 AM, Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN) wrote:

> Hello, I already sent this mail to the sleuthkit-users lists, but  
> probably this is a more appropiate forum to ask:
>
> As part of a personal
> project I created some code to make TSK capable of reading some image
> formats used by virtual machines (VirtualPC, VMWare, Qemu and Bochs).
> This was done by developing a "translation layer" between TSK and the
> procedures from Qemu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/).
> My question is (since IANAL): how compatible is the IBM Open Source
> License and the GPL? I'm asking this since the code taken from Qemu is
> licensed under the GPL. If somebody with legal expertise could  
> chime in
> and confirm that this is ok, I would be happy to release the source
> code (if there is the need that is).
>
> Update: Qemu CVS just added support for the VirtualBox disk images  
> (VDI), which should be easy to port over too.
>
> Best regards,
> Cd-MAN
>
>
>
>
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