[augeas-devel] Relicensing under the LGPLv3

[Dominique Dumont]

David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> So, any comments ?


http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq mentions that you can release a LGPLv2.1
project that _use_ a LGPv3 library.

So moving Augeas to LPGv3 is not necessary. (keeping in mind that IANAL)

HTH

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Dominique Dumont 
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