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

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:39:05 -0200
Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:

> 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?

I might be the best contact.  I know Stephen Tweedie (author of ext2/ext3 filesystems) and he works at Red Hat too.  I will talk to him and Ted T'so and see where we get.

I'll keep everyone informed.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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