Bug#506040: Unclear licensing on some files

[Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Clint Byrum wrote:

> Hi Sage,
> 
> I've been reviewing the package, and I'm almost done. However, there are
> some issues with the licensing that may prevent it from entering Debian
> and/or Ubuntu's archive:
> 
> src/client/fuse.cc has this header:
> 
> /*
>  * Ceph - scalable distributed file system * * Copyright (C) 2004-2006
>  Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> * * This is free software; you can
>  redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser
>  General Public * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software
>  * Foundation.  See file COPYING.  * */
> 
> 
> /*
>     FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace Copyright (C) 2001-2005  Miklos Szeredi
>     <miklos@szeredi.hu>
> 
>     This program can be distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
>     See the file COPYING.
> */
> 
> 
> Since the file was originally under the GPL, I believe it cannot not be
> re-licensed to the LGPL 2.1 in this way without Miklos assigning copyright
> to you or granting you special permission to relicense the file. This
> would actually require the entire client to be re-licensed to the GPL.

Hi Clint,

I'll just change the license for that file to GPL.  The LGPL is used for 
the rest to allow linking the client side stuff into applications, but 
that's not important for fuse.cc.  (And in any case, fuse.cc is mostly 
unused... cfuse uses fuse_ll.cc by default.)

I'm applying your cleanups to the upstream debian/.  A 0.21 release is (I 
hope) about a week away, and there are a number of changes in the ceph.git 
unstable branch.

> Anyway, hopefully we can get that licensing issue cleared up quickly so
> ceph makes it into the 10.10 release of Ubuntu.

What's the timeframe for that?

Thanks!
sage