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. >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 [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
