I don't have a real problem with that (despide the fact that i will get in the nightmare of rewriting the ubuntu/debian copyright file) since i haven't start with the project i have for augeas still. But i will ask some friends if they know about issues on that migration (and read the licenses to see the diff's)
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 22:52 -0400, James Antill wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 19:11 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 17:18 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, David Lutterkort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > I am thinking about relicensing Augeas under the LGPLv3, one of the > > > > reasons being that I want to use at least one gnulib module > > > > (canonicalize_file_name) that is only available under the LGPLv3. > > > > > > > > As far as I understand the matter, there should be little impact on the > > > > users of Augeas, in particular what can be linked against libaugeas, but > > > > IANAL, and I'd like to hear from others before I take that step. > > > > > > Can you get away with 2.1+ instead of 3? > > > > No, the gnulib module I am interested in (and a bunch of others) are > > under LGPLv3, so I couldn't use it in LGPLv2.1+ code. > > canonicalize_file_name has been around a long time, certainly longer > than the LGPLv3 ... so you should be able to get copies of that (and > probably all the other modules) under LGPLv2+. > > > What is your concern with LGPLv3 ? (That's mostly why I started the > > thread, to find out what concerns it raises) > > AIUI LGPLv3 can be linked with anything, so I don't think there is a > real problem with augeas moving to it ... but I'm _far_ from a lawyer. > And far from a marketing person. > Also on a personal note it seems really scummy for gnulib to force > everyone else to drop the v2.1+ compatibility. -- aka nxvl Key fingerprint = BCE4 27A0 D03E 55DE DA2D BE06 891D 8DEE 6545 97FE gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 654597FE
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