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Ext2/3/4 file system utilities
http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org
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Is mke2fs GPLv3 compatible? #177

Closed AnuthaDev closed 7 months ago

AnuthaDev commented 7 months ago

Is it GPL-2.0-only or can it be used in GPLv3 source?

tytso commented 7 months ago

Like the Linux kernel, e2fsprogs is GPL-2 only. Of course, GPL-3 code can run a GPL-2 program using fork-exec, which is how mke2fs is generally run. But if you were going to try to incorporate mke2fs source code or libext2fs library in GPLv3 source code, I would invite you to investigate relicensing your source code to GPL-2.

For my (and Linus's) rationale for our license choice, please see the video "Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for."

AnuthaDev commented 7 months ago

Ok 🥲