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Sage Weil authored
The primary motivation to relicense is a desire to integrate with projects that are licensed under the Apache License version 2.0. Although opinions vary, there are some who argue the the LGPL-2.1 and Apache-2.0 licenses are not fully compatible. We would like to avoid the ambiguity and potential for controversy. Projects we would like to consume that are Apache-2.0 licensed include Seastar, OpenSSL (which is in the process of relicensing to Apache-2.0), and Swagger (swagger.io). Note that some of these are dynamically linked or consumed via a high-level language and may or may not require a change to LGPL-3.0, but providing the option for LGPL-3.0 certainly avoids any uncertainty. A few other source files are already incorporated into Ceph that claim an Apache-2.0 license: src/common/deleter.h src/common/sstring.h src/include/cpp-btree The Ceph developers would further like to provide a license option that is more modern than the current LGPL-2.1. LGPL-3.0 includes updated, clarified language around several issues and is widely considered more modern, superior license. Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <[email protected]>
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This project is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only.
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