[augeas-devel] Relicensing under the LGPLv3

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 17:18 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I am thinking about relicensing Augeas under the LGPLv3, one of the
> > reasons being that I want to use at least one gnulib module
> > (canonicalize_file_name) that is only available under the LGPLv3.
> >
> > As far as I understand the matter, there should be little impact on the
> > users of Augeas, in particular what can be linked against libaugeas, but
> > IANAL, and I'd like to hear from others before I take that step.
> 
> Can you get away with 2.1+ instead of 3?

No, the gnulib module I am interested in (and a bunch of others) are
under LGPLv3, so I couldn't use it in LGPLv2.1+ code.

What is your concern with LGPLv3 ? (That's mostly why I started the
thread, to find out what concerns it raises)

David