[augeas-devel] Relicensing under the LGPLv3

[Jeff Schroeder]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:42 AM, David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

Net win for everyone. Nice work david.

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