[dm-devel] multipath-tools licenses (was Re: [PATCH] multipath-tools: replace FSF address with a www pointer)

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 03/23/2018 09:30 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:

> [...]
> This is a total mess for potential users of our code. Effectively, the
> GPL parts of libmultipath would cause all of multipath-tools to be
> under GPL rather than LGPLv2.x, because the linking exception of the
> LGPL wouldn't apply to them, forbidding linking non-GPL code with
> libmultipath.
> [...]

Already discussed, but without a real conclusion: https://marc.info/?t=146961656800001