On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 08:22:34AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 03:36:05PM +0000, Tage Johansson wrote:
> This commit creates basic Rust bindings in the rust directory.
> The bindings are generated by generator/Rust.ml and
> generator/RustSys.ml.
> ---
> +++ b/rust/Cargo.toml
> @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
> +# nbd client library in userspace
> +# Copyright Tage Johansson
> +#
> +# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> +# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> +# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> +# version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This says LGPLv2+...
> +#
> +# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
> +# Lesser General Public License for more details.
> +#
> +# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
> +# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
> +# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
> +
> +[workspace]
> +
> +[workspace.package]
> +authors = ["Tage Johansson"]
> +version = "0.1.0"
> +edition = "2021"
> +description = "Rust bindings for libnbd, a client library for controlling
block devices over a network."
> +license = "LGPL-2.1-only"
...but this does not. Why the discrepancy? It is a disservice to
clients to have a more restrictive license for the Rust bindings than
for the rest of libnbd.
I agree with Eric that we should fix this (it seems like a simple
oversight rather than a deliberate thing). If Tage you give me the OK
I will change it in the upstream repo.
Rich.
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