[parted-devel] e2fsprogs license issue [ was: Re: What should I work on? ]

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Tue Oct 16 17:39:05 UTC 2007


David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> However, we have a snag now.  Specifically with e2fsprogs.  Someone
> needs to talk to e2fsprogs and make sure their license will work
> with parted (which is now GPL v3).  Last I checked, e2fsprogs was
> GPLv2 only.

Right. This is a serious issue to us since this could block us to use
their libraries in this case.

Does someone here knows e2fsprogs upstream? If yes, could we start to
try to contact them and see if we can sort it out?

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