[augeas-devel] Relicensing under the LGPLv3

[James Antill]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 19:11 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> 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.

 canonicalize_file_name has been around a long time, certainly longer
than the LGPLv3 ... so you should be able to get copies of that (and
probably all the other modules) under LGPLv2+.

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

 AIUI LGPLv3 can be linked with anything, so I don't think there is a
real problem with augeas moving to it ... but I'm _far_ from a lawyer.
And far from a marketing person.
 Also on a personal note it seems really scummy for gnulib to force
everyone else to drop the v2.1+ compatibility.

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James Antill <james at fedoraproject.com>
Fedora