Rumors of my demise are somewhat exaggerated. If there is consensus I'll seriously consider it. But as Seth said can you not just change the license of your program?
Paul On 18 July 2012 15:12, Seth Vidal <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
