Re: btrfs.h and btrfs-progs licensing

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For crc32c you can use this one which is lgpl:
https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi/blob/master/lib/crc32c.c


You can use the generator at :
http://www.ross.net/crc/download/crc_v3.txt
to generate this (and others)



On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:50 PM, David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 02:13:50PM -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
>> However, as it stands, the kernel's include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h and
>> btrfs-progs are GPLv2, which means that a "libbtrfs" that is based on either
>> of these might also be construed to need to be GPLv2, and any program
>> *using* libbtrfs might also be construed to need to be GPLv2.
>
> Looking at "nm libbtrfs.a" there are rbtree and crc32c symbols included
> in the library, licensed under GPLv2, the rest is pure userspace code and
> the people are around to ask about relicensing.
>
> david
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