FUSE licence

Mohammed Gamal m.gamal005 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 06:11:50 EST 2012


I guess this means commercial applications can link against libfuse
because the LGPL allows that, which the kernel modules are in GPL in
order to be compliant with the rest of the kernel.
Userspace apps won't need to link against the module anyway.

Best Regards,
Mohammed

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:07 PM, SaNtosh kuLkarni
<santosh.yesoptus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi i see the following license for FUSE
>
> GPL for kernel part, LGPL for Libfuse
>
> What does this mean can anyone brief me. Can FUSE be used for developing
> commercial application using that.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Santosh
>
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