[Libosinfo] [RESEND RFC PATCH 2/2] ubuntu: Add jeos install-script (version >= 6.06)

Chris Lalancette clalancette at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 20:39:53 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:27:06PM +0100, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
>> From: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>>
>> script base on: https://github.com/clalancette/oz/tree/master/oz/auto
>
> Oz is licensed under the LGPLv2-only, while libosinfo is LGPLv2-or-later
> so we need to be slightly careful in copying here.
>
> I'm unclear how much is your work, vs copied from Oz, but
> for safety sake I think we should be explicit about the license
> change here. GIT says the Ubuntu files there have changes from
> 4 people in Oz history.

The preseed files look very similar, and since that is most of the
patch, better to be safe.

>
>   Author: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
>   Author: Chris Lalancette <clalancette at gmail.com>
>   Author: helgi <helgith at gmail.com>
>   Author: Joseph W. Breu <breu at breu.org>
>   Author: Steven Dake <sdake at redhat.com>
>
> For any of the changes authored under Red Hat copyright, we have
> unconditional permission to change to LGPLv2+. The 2 changes by
> Helgi and Joseph Breu are so trivial to be not considered
> copyrightable material.
>
> We should still get an explicit ack from Chris for changes he's
> made since he left Red Hat though.
>
> Chris, can you reply to confirm you're ok with this.

In any case, yes, it is fine to license these bits under LGPLv2 or later.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalancette at gmail.com>




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