This relicenses the libbtrfsutil library to LGPLv2.1+ from LGPLv3.
People that have contributed non-trivial changes acknowledged the change
and are listed below.
There's a potential licensing conflict with the 'btrfs' utility that is
GPLv2 and statically links libbtrfsutil, this is not a valid combination
per the compatibility matrix as found in
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility or
http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq .
We also have an explicit request to change the license [1] (issue #323)
from LGPLv3 to allow use in environments that don't like GPLv3. Though
the library license is not GPLv3, the full text of the license is in the
repository and the 'lesser' part is an addendum. This was perhaps a bit
confusing, nevertheless this gets clarified as well.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/b927ca28-e280-4d79-184f-b72867dbdaa8@denx.de/
Acked-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Acked-by: Misono Tomhiro <misono.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>
Acked-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Zygo Blaxell <ce3g8jdj@umail.furryterror.org>
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/985400
Issue: #323
Signed-off-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Currently, users wishing to manage Btrfs filesystems programatically
have to shell out to btrfs-progs and parse the output. This isn't ideal.
The goal of libbtrfsutil is to provide a library version of as many of
the operations of btrfs-progs as possible and to migrate btrfs-progs to
use it.
Rather than simply refactoring the existing btrfs-progs code, the code
has to be written from scratch for a couple of reasons:
* A lot of the btrfs-progs code was not designed with a nice library API
in mind in terms of reusability, naming, and error reporting.
* libbtrfsutil is licensed under the LGPL, whereas btrfs-progs is under
the GPL, which makes it dubious to directly copy or move the code.
Eventually, most of the low-level btrfs-progs code should either live in
libbtrfsutil or the shared kernel/userspace filesystem code, and
btrfs-progs will just be the CLI wrapper.
This first commit just includes the build system changes, license,
README, and error reporting helper.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
