On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 05:45:21PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > FWIW: xNBD derived from the original NBD package and still shares code > with it afaict. This might bring up the question whether it is legal to > distribute xNBD as GPL-2+ (I can't tell xNBD is a fork though). The > license statements made by ustream are a bit misleading and perhaps > incomplete, as he seems to use the word GPL-2/GPL-2+ exchangeable.
If true, that would be a breach of copyright. NBD is GPL2 *only*, and the number of people who have contributed to NBD in the past is too numerous to change this anymore (if I had the motivation to do so, which I don't). However, I just had a quick look over the source code, and while their license file does indeed state that there is some reuse with "other projects", I can't immediately find any (nontrivial) code that I recognize; so it might not be code from nbd that they're talking about. Please talk to your upstream to get them to clarify this; and while you're at it, might want to let them know that I'm always interested in taking useful patches for vanilla nbd :-) -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
