[Libguestfs] Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Sep 12 16:51:07 UTC 2013


Eric Blake wrote:
> It may be time to ask rms if the FSF can do
> the relicensing, rather than our current policy of tracking down all
> contributors and asking them to use their grant-back clause of their FSF
> copyright assignment as our backdoor of not having to involve the FSF.

It wouldn't hurt to ask rms this once, but
I wouldn't want to bother him with minor requests
like this every time they comes up.  We have
a general guideline that it's ok to relicense
gnulib libraryish code using the LGPL,
and all that's arguably needed is for rms
to review the guideline.




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