On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:54:08PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jan 30, 2002 20:22 +0000, Joe Thornber wrote: > > Sistina is pleased to announce that the LVM2 software is ready for > > beta testing. > > > > This is a complete reimplementation of the existing LVM system, both > > driver and userland tools. > > What is the current and future licensing of the LVM2 code? Given the > GFS events, I think people will be hesitant to accept an all-Sistina > reimplementation of LVM. LVM2 is GPL/LGPL-licensed - just like the original version of LVM. This means the whole Linux community benefits from this aspect of Sistina's work. The device-mapper and LVM2 packages will *always* be GPL/LGPL. As those who have been following LVM development closely will be aware, the decision to rewrite was taken for sound technical - not licensing - reasons, and of course we welcome and encourage contributions to LVM2 from outside Sistina. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
