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From: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, dpotapov@gmail.com, vagabon.xyz@gmail.com
Subject: Re: permission to re-license archive-zip.c and zlib.c as LGPL
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:34:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7CB52A.2090600@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+sFfMdzMCJut385jCJ88Z8sUw3E2Bs2A1SiECORQsFJjsb=Qg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 23.09.2011 05:51, schrieb Brandon Casey:
> To those who have contributed to archive-zip.c and zlib.c,
> 
> I'd like to make a library for writing zip files.  I really don't see
> another library out there that does it as easily as archive-zip.  So,
> with your consent, I'd like to re-license the code in archive-zip.c
> and zlib.c as LGPL so that I can create an archive-zip library.  The
> reason for LGPL, of course, is so that it can be linked with non-GPL
> code.
> 
> Please offer your consent to re-license your contributions under LGPL
> by replying to this email.

Fine with me; BSD or MIT style licenses would be OK as well.

Actually I'm a bit surprised that libarchive didn't grow ZIP write
support by now.

René

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-23  3:51 permission to re-license archive-zip.c and zlib.c as LGPL Brandon Casey
2011-09-23 16:34 ` René Scharfe [this message]

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