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

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

Thank you very much! We'll be waiting for the news.

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