On Wed, 6 May 2015, Dave Taht wrote:
I have no vote in this matter! (not being a copyright-holder), but as
so far as I know the actual users of the quagga-babeld code borders on
"none", and this dispute is unresolvable.
Until such time as a purely GPL'd version of the babeld sources is
created from scratch by someone with the chops to actually write it and
maintain it, and no version of libzebra exists with a LGPL license, I
think it would be best to remove babel entirely from quagga.
Yes, one other Quagga maintainer has advocated this for a while. I'm of
this view too. It hasn't been done because, as I understand it, another
maintainer disagreed in the past.
I think babeld either must be updated (and bringing it functionally up to
date is fairly trivial), or else deleted from Quagga. I vote for the
latter, unless Juliusz says otherwise.
Aside: An LGPL libzebra need not be sufficient to allow Quagga-based
daemons to ignore the GPL of Quagga, based on other legal advice I've been
privy to (a long time ago, way before babeld - and that advice deeply
disappointed me). People should seek their own advice on that.
regards,
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