On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:29:15AM -0800, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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+ > > > > I'm going to write (or find) a new hash implementation for libguestfs > > really soon. Is there any final chance this will be relicensed? > > Hi Rich, > Sorry I didn't reply sooner. Somehow I missed this thread completely. > libguestfs is definitely a good argument for making hash LGPLv2. > I agree to relax its license to LGPLv2, and have just pushed this change:
Cheers Jim, that's good news. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)
