[Gluster-users] Fwd: License option for the GlusterFS

Zhou Ganhong zhougulf at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 08:34:01 UTC 2014


Hi, Anand Avati
      Thanks a lot.
       Then my understanding is that both GlusterFS server/client codes can
be licensed under LGPL. Is it right?
       So all the links are not accurate. Could you send out a reference
link or document to describe above statement?

      // Gulf

2014-10-16 15:41 GMT+08:00 Anand Avati <avati at gluster.org>:

> GlusterFS did undergo a few revisions of license changes. We have finally
> settled on dual licensed "GPL v2 / LGPL v3 or later" - for all the code in
> glusterfs.git outside contrib/.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Zhou Ganhong <zhougulf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi, all
>>
>>                I am confused by the License used by the GlusterFS. There
>> are different descriptions in the web site. Which one is correct? Thanks a
>> lot.
>>
>>
>>
>>                Here is the link that claims that AGPL is appled.
>>
>>
>> http://www.gluster.org/documentation/community/GNU_Affero_General_Public_License/
>>
>>
>>
>> But In these links,
>> http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Developers and
>> https://forge.gluster.org/glusterfs-core/pages/Home, the below is
>> mentioned.  It seems that the client library is Dual License.
>>
>>
>>
>> License Change <http://www.gluster.org/2012/05/glusterfs-license-change/>
>> - we recently changed the client library code to a dual license under the
>> GPL v2 and the LGPL v3 or later
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                // Gulf
>>
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