>From: "James A Goodwin" <jagoodwi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>The GPL indicates that linking with libraries distributed under it results
>in an executable which is also under GPL. This means that any client
>program written as a client to the Linux XFS DMAPI library is sucked in
>under GPL, even though no GPL code was modified.
>
>Was this SGI's intent? If so, it seems to effectively destroy any chance
>of commercial software interfacing with Linux XFS, via DMAPI or any other
>supplied library.
>
>If not, is there any plan to distribute Linux XFS under the LGPL, which
>does allow non-GPL linking?
Maybe we just need to change the relevant libraries to be LGPL? This would
include all of cmd/dmapi and all of cmd/xfsprogs/libhandle. Do we also need
to change the license on any header files used when building these libraries?
Ken, do we have an LGPL comment block to put in place of the GPL comment block
on these files? Do I just change all instances of "General Public License"
with "Lesser General Public License"? And change the license version from 2
to 2.1?
Dean
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