[augeas-devel] Relicensing under the LGPLv3

David Lutterkort dlutter at redhat.com
Mon Jul 21 18:42:14 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 14:59 -0700, David Lutterkort 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.

Just to close this thread: relicensing Augeas is off the table for now.

The gnulib folks (Bruno Haible and Jim Meyereing) actually agreed to
change the license for canonicalize_file_name to LGPLv2.1+, so that
Augeas can use it without any license headaches :)

David





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