Re: GPL and DMAPI

["James A Goodwin" <jagoodwi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you saying that libdm.so is LGPL but libhandle.a is not?  Since DMAPI
applications don't directly utilize libhandle.a (it is utilized by the LGPL
libdm.o) that doesn't make much sense.  That would mean something like,
"Here is this LGPL library to let your commercial applications use our
code, but it has this dependency on a GPL library that makes you open
source your software, ha ha!"

What can be done to get the libhandle.a under LGPL?

-James Goodwin
Software Engineer
IBM Global Services - Federal
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                    Dean Roehrich                                               
                                   
                    <roehrich@sgi.       To:     Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> 
                                   
                    com>                 cc:     Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, 
James A Goodwin/Houston/IBM@IBMUS,     
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                    09/06/2001           Subject:     Re: GPL and DMAPI         
                                   
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>From:  Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
>Steve Lord wrote:
>
>> As James found out, the dmapi library is actually already LGPL. so there
>> is no constraint on using it.
>
>That's what cmd/dmapi/doc/COPYING says, but the headers in the
>individual files say otherwise - I guess we need to sync that up.

Ah, thank you.  So, I can modify the license comment block in each file
under
cmd/dmapi.

Now, what do we do with libhandle?  This is used by libdm.  The
cmd/xfsprogs/doc/COPYING file does not mention the LGPL.

Dean