[LinuxFailSafe] Failsafe Licence LGPL / GPL confusion

[Kashif Shaikh]

Hello everyone,

I know this list is not hardly used by anyone, but I was wondering if
someone from SGI or SuSE can answer my question:

Most of the header files in FailSafe/cluster_services/include/ are LGPL,
which permits proprietary add-ons to use the underlying CHOAS
libraries(cms/gcs/srm).  However, some of the header files are
confusing: For example, FailSafe/cluster_services/include/ci_config.h is
LGPL, but the header files it includes(i.e. cdb.h) are GPL only.

Won't this contaminate proprietary add-ons? In this case ci_config.h
should be labeled as GPL, and not LGPL. Or perhaps the cdb library
should be marked as LGPL(can only be done by copyright owners i.e. SGI).
I'm not arguing if a library should be GPL or LGPL, I'm just saying the
license application should be made clearer, so people like me can
evaluate failsafe v.s. heartbeat(it's API is consistently LGPL). I can't
make the headers more clearer, because it depends on what the copyright
owners want to LGPL. So the balls in your court, I just need objective
information.



Kashif