On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:51:11PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > libguestfs (an LGPLv2+ library) uses the 'hash' module, which turns > out to be "GPL". > > Actually this happened because we started to use it in a separate > GPL'd utility program, but later on included this functionality in the > core library, copying the same code from the utility but not checking > the license of 'hash'. > > We'd therefore like to request that 'hash' is relicensed as LGPLv2+. > If this is not possible, we will have to rewrite the code, probably > implementing our own hash table, which would be a shame because hash > works well for our needs. > > Notes: > > - the code doesn't appear to call exit (it does call abort), and so > seems to be suitable for a library > > - hash-pjw which we also use is already licensed as LGPLv2+ > > - it looks like the original author was Jim Meyering (CC'd) > > - the dependencies are all LGPLv2+
Any comments? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
