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Re: GPL and DMAPI

To: "James A Goodwin" <jagoodwi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: GPL and DMAPI
From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 09:19:23 -0500
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
>From:  "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?

We'll get it sorted out.

Dean


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