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Re: error, getprogname: Relicense under LGPLv2+
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Pino Toscano |
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Re: error, getprogname: Relicense under LGPLv2+ |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:48:23 +0100 |
On Monday, 22 March 2021 16:28:57 CET John David Anglin wrote:
> On 2021-03-22 10:37 a.m., Jim Meyering wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:09 AM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
> >> I would like to use the module 'clean-temp' and, with it, the modules
> >> 'error'
> >> and 'getprogname' in a library under GPLv2+ (namely, GNU libffcall) and in
> >> a
> >> gnulib module for JIT support.
> >>
> >> To this effect, I would like to ask for your permission to relicense these
> >> modules (error and getprogname) from LGPLv3+ to LGPLv2+.
> >>
> >> The lib/error.c code is based on the one in glibc (LGPLv2+). Here we would
> >> need
> >> the approval of
> >> Pino Toscano
> >> for
> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=f29814b96c9737abc8193d57d630697700feebeb
> >> Paul Eggert
> >> for
> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=aad5573e2e307ba42eea5b6b76b0b9788a5eaaec
> >>
> >> For lib/getprogname.c we would need the approval of
> >> Pino Toscano
> >> Paul Eggert
> >> Jim Meyering
> >> Gisle Vanem
> >> Daniel Richard G
> >> John David Anglin
> >> Benji Wiebe
> >>
> >> To give your approval, please reply with the mailing list in CC.
> > Fine with me to relicense.
> Same here.
I agree with the relicensing to LGPLv2+.
It actually was my original intention (that's why I created a new
module), apparently missing the important fact that the unversioned
"LGPL" means "v3+".
Thanks,
--
Pino Toscano
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- error, getprogname: Relicense under LGPLv2+, Bruno Haible, 2021/03/22
- Re: error, getprogname: Relicense under LGPLv2+, Jim Meyering, 2021/03/22
- Re: error, getprogname: Relicense under LGPLv2+, Paul Eggert, 2021/03/22
- Re: error, getprogname: Relicense under LGPLv2+, Daniel Richard G., 2021/03/22
- Re: error, getprogname: Relicense under LGPLv2+, Benji Wiebe, 2021/03/22
- Re: error, getprogname: Relicense under LGPLv2+, Bruno Haible, 2021/03/22