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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