gdbm license change

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Nov 15 21:49:59 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:21:52PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:57:20PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 18:18 +0100, Honza Horak wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > GNU database indexing library (gdbm) has changed its license to GPLv3+.
> > 
> > A quick scan says this affects:
> 
> > libguestfs (LGPLv2+)
> 
> The LGPLv2+ libguestfs.so library does not link to libgdbm.so. So AFAICT,
> the libgdbm.so dependancy in the libguestfs RPM is solely for the generated
> appliance image which runs in the QEMU guest, and thus has no bearing on
> the libguestfs.so license.
> 
> CC'ing rjones to confirm.

What Dan says here is correct.

Rich.

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