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.