On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:12:40AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Tomas Mlcoch wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I am Tomas - developer of createrepo_c project > >(https://fedorahosted.org/createrepo_c). > >I've recently finished a sqlite module for the project > >(https://fedorahosted.org/createrepo_c/browser/src/sqlite.c). > >In the module, I am using pieces of code from the yum-metadata-parser. > > > >I've been notified by [email protected] that y-m-p is under GPLv2 but my > >createrepo_c is under LGPLv2. > > > >I want to confess my fault and make a apology for bad use of your code. > >At the same time, I would like to ask you (involved authors of y-m-p) for > >permission to relicensing some affected pieces of yum-metadata-parser code > >from GPLv2 to LGPLv2. > > > >The affected code pieces are from db.c > >(http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-metadata-parser.git;a=blob_plain;f=db.c;hb=HEAD), > > namely, this functions: > >- encoded_package_file_new > >- encoded_package_file_free > >- package_files_to_hash > >- yum_db_create_dbinfo_table > >- yum_db_dbinfo_update > >- yum_db_create_primary_tables > >- yum_db_index_primary_tables > >- yum_db_package_prepare > >- yum_db_package_write > >- yum_db_dependency_prepare > >- yum_db_dependency_write > >- yum_db_file_prepare > >- yum_db_file_write > >- yum_db_create_filelist_tables > >- yum_db_create_filelist_tables > >- yum_db_package_ids_prepare > >- yum_db_package_ids_write > >- yum_db_filelists_prepare > >- write_file > >- yum_db_filelists_write > >- yum_db_create_other_tables > >- yum_db_index_other_tables > >- yum_db_changelog_prepare > >- yum_db_changelog_write > > > >db.c authors via git-blame on db.c: > >- James Antill > >- James Bowes > >- Paul Nasrat > >- Seth Vidal > >- Tambet Ingo > > > >So my question: > >Would you mind if I relicense the mentioned pieces of your code from GPLv2 > >to LGPLv2? > > > >PS: Should you require any additional information, do not hesitate to > >contact me. > > > >Best regards > >Tomas > > > Tomas, > Given that contacting or getting permission from everyone may be > very tricky - I'd suggest you rethink the need for your program to > be LGPLv2. > > Is there a particular reason you need it to be under that version of > the GPL? > > -sv >
I'm happy to provide my consent for relicensing to LGPLv2. (and I appologize for taking to long to reply :) ) -James
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