Fair enough. Thanks for clearing it up. Is this something anyone cares to fix? I'm personally happy to accept it as is with this email chain as reference, but I will also be happy to add the "Lesser" and submit a pull request if you want it. I'm not big on changing other peoples' copyright headers unless they ask for it though. :-) Steve On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Loic Dachary <loic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > The missing "Lesser" is a nice typo :-) There has never been a GPLv2.1 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_2 ) and I guess it helps disambiguate the interpretation. > > Cheers > > On 02/06/2014 18:15, Steve Taylor wrote: >> Sorry, my previous reply was rejected by the list because it wasn't in >> plain text. Let's try again. >> >> librbd.cc: >> /* >> * Ceph - scalable distributed file system >> * >> * Copyright (C) 2011 New Dream Network >> * >> * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or >> * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public >> * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software >> * Foundation. See file COPYING. >> * >> */ >> >> librbd.h: >> /* >> * Ceph - scalable distributed file system >> * >> * Copyright (C) 2011 New Dream Network >> * >> * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or >> * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public >> * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software >> * Foundation. See file COPYING. >> * >> */ >> >> librbd.hpp: >> /* >> * Ceph - scalable distributed file system >> * >> * Copyright (C) 2011 New Dream Network >> * >> * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or >> * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public >> * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software >> * Foundation. See file COPYING. >> * >> */ >> >> These are the three that I've noticed poking around librbd so far. My >> understanding from COPYING is that they should be LGPL, but these >> copyright headers obviously state GPL instead. I'm just trying to >> understand definitely which it is. :) >> >> If a change is in order, of course I'll be happy to make the change >> myself and submit a pull request if you like. >> >> Steve >> >> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi Steve, >>> >>> On Fri, 30 May 2014, Steve Taylor wrote: >>>> I am working with a company that wants to utilize librbd in a project to >>>> interact with Ceph storage. For the purposes of this integration, >>>> LGPL-licensed open source code is acceptable, but GPL-licensed code is not. >>>> Well, at least not without other changes to the project, which can be >>>> accomplished if necessary. >>>> >>>> The COPYING file distributed with the Ceph source code seems to indicate >>>> that librbd would fall under LGPL 2.1, but some of the source files in >>>> librbd reference GPL 2.1 in their copyright headers. >>> >>> Which files? If there are disparities we should correct them. To the best >>> of my knowledge everything in librbd is LGPL. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> sage >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >From what I have found so far, it appears to me that the sources in >>>> question were probably originally LGPL, but were switched to GPL a few >>>> years back to comply with FUSE licensing, which is GPL. Is my understanding >>>> correct that these librbd source files are now GPL? If so and FUSE is the >>>> reason behind it, is it possible to dual-license those files so they could >>>> be LGPL when not used with FUSE? >>>> >>>> I just want to make sure I understand the licensing properly. I apologize >>>> if this has been discussed previously. I am new to the list and can't seem >>>> to get the archive search feature to work. >>>> >>>> Steve >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in >>>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>>> >>>> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > -- > Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
