[Xorp-hackers] valgrind: selector.cc: Reading free'd memory

[Bruce Simpson]

Bruce Simpson wrote:
> ...
> The XORP libraries are in fact LGPLv2; the protocols, in the community 
> branch, just happen to be GPLv2. So the virality of the GPL doesn't 
> apply, just because a process happens to speak XRL.

P.S. Thrift has the Apache ASF license, which is mostly BSD / MIT like, 
so has no virality.

Assuming the Thrift XRL refactoring work is successfully completed 
(which looks likely at this point in time), the libxipc shims would be 
sufficiently different from the original implementation to be candidates 
for relicensing; only the shell of API needed for linkage to existing 
XORP processes would remain. Whilst ABI (binary) compatibility is likely 
it's not something I'm ruling in at this stage of the work.

It's likely the original LGPL license would be preserved at the point of 
merge, as it could constitute a derived work, although the libxipc 
change hasn't significantly changed since it was last released under a 
BSD license, which is not viral.

In any event, external contributors would be free to make whatever 
changes they like, without any obligations, providing they don't touch 
code which has been GPLed (i.e. the RIB, FEA, or existing protocols).