Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-08-10 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > > Module Source file Contributors > > -- --- > > > > chown lib/chown.c Eric Blake > > > > lchown lib/lchown.cEric Blake > > > > openlib/open.c

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/10/2010 08:48 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > David Lutterkort wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:35 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: >>> Adam Stokes wrote: Is it possible to change these modules licenses to LGPLv2+? > ... >> Don't forget Jim, who is cited as the original author of chown and >> l

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/29/2010 02:35 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Adam Stokes wrote: >> Is it possible to change these modules licenses to LGPLv2+? > > Have you considered releasing your library under LGPLv3+? > > For your request, the following contributors since 2007-10-07 > would have to agree: > > Module

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-08-10 Thread Jim Meyering
David Lutterkort wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:35 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Adam Stokes wrote: >> > Is it possible to change these modules licenses to LGPLv2+? ... > Don't forget Jim, who is cited as the original author of chown and > lchown in the source. Relaxing that one to lgplv2+ is

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/29/2010 04:47 PM, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:46 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 07/29/2010 03:42 PM, David Lutterkort wrote: For your request, the following contributors since 2007-10-07 would have to agree: >>> >>> Don't forget Jim, who is cited as the o

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread David Lutterkort
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:46 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/29/2010 03:42 PM, David Lutterkort wrote: > >> > >> For your request, the following contributors since 2007-10-07 > >> would have to agree: > > > > Don't forget Jim, who is cited as the original author of chown and > > lchown in the sour

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread Bruno Haible
David Lutterkort wrote: > > Is it possible to change these modules licenses to LGPLv2+? > > Have you considered releasing your library under LGPLv3+? > > Adam is asking because he's working on porting augeas[1] to mingw; > relicensing augeas under LGPLv3+ is not really an option, since most of > i

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread Bruno Haible
David Lutterkort wrote: > Don't forget Jim, who is cited as the original author of chown and > lchown in the source. Yes, you're right. We need Jim's agreement for lib/chown.c and lib/lchown.c, since before 2007-10-07, these files were under GPLv2+, not LGPLv2+. My mistake, sorry. I'm glad you ca

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/29/2010 03:42 PM, David Lutterkort wrote: >> >> For your request, the following contributors since 2007-10-07 >> would have to agree: > > Don't forget Jim, who is cited as the original author of chown and > lchown in the source. Anything changes made before 2007, including original content,

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/29/2010 02:35 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Adam Stokes wrote: >> Is it possible to change these modules licenses to LGPLv2+? > > Have you considered releasing your library under LGPLv3+? > > For your request, the following contributors since 2007-10-07 > would have to agree: > > Module

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread David Lutterkort
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:35 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Adam Stokes wrote: > > Is it possible to change these modules licenses to LGPLv2+? > > Have you considered releasing your library under LGPLv3+? > > For your request, the following contributors since 2007-10-07 > would have to agree: > >

Re: license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Adam Stokes wrote: > Is it possible to change these modules licenses to LGPLv2+? Have you considered releasing your library under LGPLv3+? For your request, the following contributors since 2007-10-07 would have to agree: Module Source file Contributors --

license alteration for chown/lchown

2010-07-29 Thread Adam Stokes
Is it possible to change these modules licenses to LGPLv2+? Thank you -Adam