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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM and SPL
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:59:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010831145903.A13324@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010831084053.A24948@otto.plogic.internal>; from rlatham@plogic.com on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:40:53AM -0400

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:40:53AM -0400, Rob Latham wrote:
> sistina this week switched the license for the GFS tools from the GPL
> to the SPL 
> 
> http://www.sistina.com/Sistina%20Public%20License%201.0.pdf 
> 
> I'm worried now that Sistina will switch the license for LVM.
> However, considering there was almost a fork of the project (mostly)
> because of something as "simple" as mailing list policy, i guess
> openLVM would pop up again pretty quickly in that case...   Is it
> concievable that the kernel patches will stay GPL'ed but a more
> restrictive license applied to the userspace tools ?

Even if just the userspace tools would switch to something even more
restrictive than GPL I'd go for OpenLVM.  Just my 2 (Euro-)Cents.

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-31 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <rlatham@plogic.com>
2001-08-31 12:40 ` [linux-lvm] LVM and SPL Rob Latham
2001-08-31 12:59   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-08-31 14:26   ` Jeff Layton
2001-08-31 18:11   ` Michael J. Declerck
2001-08-31 13:07 Chemolli Francesco (USI)
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-31 15:06 Chemolli Francesco (USI)
2001-08-31 18:29 ` Jeff Layton
2001-08-31 19:02   ` Michael J. Declerck
2001-08-31 19:15     ` Jeff Layton
2001-09-03  8:42 Chemolli Francesco (USI)
2001-09-04  7:33 ` Luca Berra
2001-09-04  5:54 Gonyou, Austin
2001-09-04 10:41 ` Jeff Layton

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