[Gluster-devel] Question on Gluster license

[Muralidhar Balcha]

Hi Justin/Mark,
Thank you for detailed answers. I will definitely follow up with any
specific questions. The way I look at translators are like device drivers
in operating system. None of our  translators require any changes to
gluster code base. And if they do then my understanding is that under
lgpl2, those specific changes need to be made open source.

However I will also seek independent legal opinion, just to be sure.

Many thanks,
Murali Balcha.

On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, Justin Clift wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:35:13 -0400
> Muralidhar Balcha <muralidharb at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Does Gluster licensing allow proprietary translators?
>
> Passed your query on to Richard Fontana from Red Hat Legal,
> who provided some really good feedback. :)
>
>   Proprietary translators are allowed provided their licensing is not
>   in conflict with the (LGPLv3|GPLv2) licensing of GlusterFS. In fact,
>   LGPLv3 was chosen by the project mainly to allow development of
>   proprietary translators.
>
> He also mentioned that if you have follow up questions we
> could then address those (as time permits).
>
> Naturally, for super specific details just for your intended
> usage you should probably go hire your own legal people. :)
>
> Does that help?
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Muralidhar Balcha
> > 508 494 5007
>
>
> --
> Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com <javascript:;>>
>


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Muralidhar Balcha
508 494 5007
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