[augeas-devel] Relicensing under the LGPLv3

[Nicolas Valcarcel]

I don't have a real problem with that (despide the fact that i will get
in the nightmare of rewriting the ubuntu/debian copyright file) since i
haven't start with the project i have for augeas still. But i will ask
some friends if they know about issues on that migration (and read the
licenses to see the diff's) 

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 22:52 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> 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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