Re: LizardFS NFS Ganesha integration with no shared library available

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Hi,

Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote on Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 01:16:35PM -0500:
> The LizardFS FSAL is GPLv3.  NFS-Ganesha is LGPLv3+.
> 
> From a Fedora packaging standpoint is it acceptable to build a GPLv3
> plug-in for an otherwise LGPLv3+ binary?
> 
> If the licenses were reversed, I'd be reasonably confident that that
> combination is okay.
> 
> What sayeth our "I'm not a lawyer but I play one on Fedora Devel mailing
> list" legal beagles?

In principle this should be fine, VLC does that too -- libvlc (the core)
is LGPL and vlc itself with the gui is GPL.

What matters is that proprietary stuff™ that want to use ganesha do not
link with the GPL FSALs

-- 
Dominique
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