Re: HEADS UP: dm, lvm, cryptsetup and initrd on master

["Samuel J. Greear" <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Alex <ahornung@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as you know I've been working on getting dm and lvm into DragonFly. I've
>> just committed my work so far which includes the following:
>>  - dm kernel part (including linear, stripe and crypt targets)
>>  - dm userland library
>>  - lvm userland tools
>>  - cryptsetup (with LUKS stuff)
>>  - some further modifications to the initrd stuff
>
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but how does this stuff work with the kernel?  Isn't
> it GPL'd?  If so, isn't that a problem?
>
>
> --
> Adam Vande More
>

The kernel parts are BSD-licensed but compatible with the GNU-licensed
LVM userland tools.

Sam