Hi, LVM2 is distributed under GPLv2 only. The readline library changed its license long ago to GPLv3. Given that those licenses are incompatible and you follow the FSF in their interpretation that dynamically linking creates a derivative work, distributing LVM2 linked against a current readline version might be legally problematic. That is why the Debian project still keeps an old readline version around that they use for LVM2 [1] and some other packages. For Fedora, I can find a mail thread reporting the same issue [4]. Many projects that cannot or do not want to depend on GPL(v3) code allow configuring with the BSD licensed editline library instead. Please consider implementing support for compiling with one of the editline implementations [2,3] so that people can move to a maintained library without license headaches. Regards, Bastian [1]: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/l/lvm2/control-2.03.07-1 [2]: https://thrysoee.dk/editline/ [3]: https://troglobit.com/projects/editline/ [4]: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-December/msg00007.html _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
