Re: [ANNOUNCE] LVM reimplementation ready for beta testing

["Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:01:20PM -0500, christophe barbé wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:22:54PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
> > The new kernel driver (known as "device-mapper") supports volume
> > management in general and is no longer Linux LVM specific.
> > As such it is a separate package from LVM2 which you will need
> > to download and install before building LVM2.
> > 
> >  ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/device-mapper-beta1.tgz
> 
> I was so curious of the new license that could have been created by sistina
> that I try to download the driver but it seems not possible at this
> time.
> 
> So let me guess ... SPL2 ?
> Oh no, the sistina way, you want some free debugging before switching
> from GPL to SPL.

Thanks for these untenable guesses ;-)

LVM2 and the device-mapper are GPL/LGPL.

Sistina decided to offer this to the community and to keep it under
the FSF licenses.

This has been stated on the Linux LVM lists before.

OTOH we need to survive as a company and therefore will implement
comercial enhancements which will BTW enable us to do support and
further development of the above free software.

> 
> Christophe
> 
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Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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