Hi Stefano: On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 9:31 PM Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > > If you are a copyright holder in python-debian, would you agree to a > > relicensing such that it can be used as a library for projects using a > > permissive, non-GPL license? > > Nope, sorry, I'd rather keep my contribution to python-debian under a > GPL, copyleft license.
Thank you for the quick reply! In earnest if you are not open to any change, this re-licensing request is basically dead. Note that I am not asking for a permissive license: I would be quite happy with an LGPL or a linking exception to the GPL and I am fine too if you feel strongly about any license change. We are not talking about a lot of code in any case. For the parts I care for (e.g. reading control, dsc and copyright files) there are about 1200 lines of code and the part that is strictly about reading is likely much less. I would have preferred reusing and contributing back to this project rather than re-writing some of my own parsing code though that should not be too big an effort. > But I encourage you to re-license any python-debian derived code under > the same license :-) That's a fair point, but I was making a case not only for my code but other existing projects that use a permissive license and call python-debian code. FWIW, "librpm" was made available by RPM authors under an LGPL license to allow wider reuse as a library to build RPM-related tools under any license but still keeping the code copyleft. This is the kind of licensing that would make sense to me for a base package manifest format library like python-debian. -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne -- https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-python-debian-maint
