<div dir="ltr">Hi Martin,<div><br></div><div>I'm not familiar with the terminology "LGPL2+". Do you mean to include LGPL2 as well as LGPL2.1 and LGPL3 by means of the "+" sign?</div><div><br></div><div>As LGPL2 is deprecated, LGPL2.1 appears (to me) to be the most flexible current *GPL* license. But if the intention of LGPL2+ is as above, that sounds fine by me.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>=Fen</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Martin Preisler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpreisle@redhat.com" target="_blank">mpreisle@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "Pierre Chifflier" <<a href="mailto:pollux@debian.org">pollux@debian.org</a>><br>
> To: "Šimon Lukašík" <<a href="mailto:slukasik@redhat.com">slukasik@redhat.com</a>>, "Martin Preisler" <<a href="mailto:mpreisle@redhat.com">mpreisle@redhat.com</a>><br>
> Cc: "open-scap-list" <<a href="mailto:open-scap-list@redhat.com">open-scap-list@redhat.com</a>><br>
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 8:35:24 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [Open-scap] Debian patches GPLv3+ vs LGPLv2<br>
<span class="">><br>
> On 05/21/2015 10:54 PM, Šimon Lukašík wrote:<br>
> > On 04/07/2015 03:36 PM, Martin Preisler wrote:<br>
> >> Hi Pierre,<br>
> >><br>
> >> we would like to merge your Debian package patches upstream but<br>
> >> they are licensed under GPLv3+. OpenSCAP is licensed under LGPLv2<br>
> >> so introducing GPLv3+ would make the entire project GPLv3+.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Could you please re-release the patches as LGPLv2+?<br>
> >><br>
> >> See <a href="https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/issues/66" target="_blank">https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/issues/66</a><br>
> >><br>
> ><br>
> > Hello Pierre,<br>
> ><br>
> > We would still love to take your patches in upstream.<br>
> ><br>
> > What do you think?<br>
><br>
</span>> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I think that that GPLv3+ was not a deliberate choice but only the<br>
> default license for packaging files. If you want to merge the patches, I<br>
> will re-license them - being the only code owner, there is no problem.<br>
> I will do that in the next upload.<br>
<br>
That would be great!<br>
<br>
> Could you please open a bug in the Debian tracker, to keep a record of<br>
> the license change request ? If you are not using Debian or cannot do<br>
> it, I'll open it.<br>
<br>
I tried but I can't find any way to do that on<br>
<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openscap" target="_blank">https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openscap</a> using my alioth login.<br>
Or did you mean <a href="http://bugs.debian.org" target="_blank">http://bugs.debian.org</a>?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Martin Preisler<br>
Security Technologies | Red Hat, Inc.<br>
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