[openstack-dev] powervc-driver project in Stackforge

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Thu May 8 16:02:38 UTC 2014


Copyright is fine and appropriate:

(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2013 All Rights Reserved

However the OCO declaration is not compatible with Open Source. And it
also should do the copyright like is done in other projects, a comment
header not in a variable.

	-Sean

On 05/08/2014 11:55 AM, Xiandong Meng wrote:
> We will fix it by adding in the Apache License file and the readme file
> to the repo. BTW, i feel it is ok to retain copyright in the source code.
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net
> <mailto:sean at dague.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 05/08/2014 11:14 AM, Xiandong Meng wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Just a heads up that we have upstreamed the powervc-driver project to
>     > Stackforge. PowerVC is the strategic product for IBM Power
>     > virtualization management. And powervc-driver project contains a
>     set of
>     > OpenStack drivers (nova, cinder and neutron) and utilities for the
>     > manage-to Power via PowerVC. With this project, community OpenStack
>     > users can build a mixed cloud environment with both x86 and Power
>     > servers.  More documentation will be provided in the launchpad and the
>     > initial CI support for the powervc-driver project will be launched
>     > within next 1-2 weeks.  Comments/feedback are welcome.
>     >
>     > PowerVC driver repository stackforge:
>     > https://github.com/stackforge/powervc-driver
>     > PowerVC driver project on launchpad:
>     > https://launchpad.net/powervc-driver
> 
>     This repository does not include even a README at this point. Starting
>     with a README would be really nice.
> 
>     Also it looks like it's not actually Open Source -
>     https://github.com/stackforge/powervc-driver/blob/master/nova-powervc/powervc/utils.py#L1-L9
>     (that's just an example, it's littered throughout the code).
> 
>     Which I assume is actually a violation of being on stackforge. So that
>     needs to be fixed ASAP or we should delete it.
> 
>             -Sean
> 
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