From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F8AC433DB for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9A264F69 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231374AbhCQLzk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:55:40 -0400 Received: from tartarus.angband.pl ([51.83.246.204]:33508 "EHLO tartarus.angband.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231528AbhCQLzL (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:55:11 -0400 Received: from kilobyte by tartarus.angband.pl with local (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1lMUjU-00HZqe-Mu for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:53:00 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:53:00 +0100 From: Adam Borowski To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Fwd: btrfs-progs: libbtrfsutil is under LGPL-3.0 and statically liked into btrfs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Junkbait: aaron@angband.pl, zzyx@angband.pl X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: kilobyte@angband.pl X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on tartarus.angband.pl); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org This is https://bugs.debian.org/985400 ----- Forwarded message from Claudius Heine ----- Dear Maintainer, I looked into the licenses of the btrfs-progs project and found that the libbtrfsutils library is licensed under LGPL-3.0-or-later [1] The `copyright` file does not show this this. IANAL, but I think since `btrfs` (under GPL-2.0-only [2]) links to `libbtrfsutil` statically this might cause a license conflict. See [3]. This would be the part that might require upstream fixing. regards, Claudius [1] https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/blob/master/libbtrfsutil/btrfsutil.h [2] https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/blob/master/btrfs.c [3] http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq#gpl-compat-matrix