Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
[...]
I guess all the questions are answered by now...
> 4. one of the questions that came to my boss' mind and which is
> (more or less) directed to linbit: is there any guarantee that
> drbd will still exist in, say, 5 to 10 years from now?? What I
> mean is, if we use it at work, we well use it for quite some
> time and have to make sure that it isn't gone in two years...
> (please bear with me, I've been using linux for about 10 years
> now, I'm an open source freak, but my boss is not...and I'd like
> my opinions to be backed up by someone more knowledgeable, at best
> by someone from linbit :-) )
drbd-0.7.11 (and all the versions before) are copyright by
me, Lars G. Ellenberg some contributors and LINBIT.
Licensed by the copyright holders to everybody under the terms
of the GPL.
-> In case that all copyright holders decide to discontinue
their work on it, every licensee (who accepted the GPL) can
potentially continue to maintain it and make subsequent
releases.
-> You are legally on solid ground.
-> BTW, this also applies to LINUX.
[BTW since today you can be a lot more sure that you will
never be sued by some multi national enterprise
that the software you use infringes one of their
software patents ! the EU parliament got it right ! ]
But, we will continue to maintain, and develop it, actually
drbd-8 is around the corner...
-philipp
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