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[194.223.186.215]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x21-20020aa79195000000b006efbc365de9sm5477336pfa.121.2024.04.16.14.28.26 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 05:28:23 +0800 From: Kent Gibson To: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Linus Walleij , Kevin Hilman , Grant Likely , linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, Bartosz Golaszewski , Walter Lozano Subject: Re: [libgpiod][PATCH 1/2] licensing: relicense C++ bindings under LGPL-2.1-or-later Message-ID: <20240416212823.GA63139@rigel> References: <20240416212141.6683-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> <20240416212141.6683-2-brgl@bgdev.pl> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240416212141.6683-2-brgl@bgdev.pl> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 11:21:40PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > From: Bartosz Golaszewski > > Commit ea84f882d5d3 ("licensing: relicense C++ library code under > LGPL-3.0-or-later") changed the license of C++ bindings in order to > solve potential issues with code generated from templates[1], default > implementations, etc. However this change makes the bindings less > attractive to projects that have strict licensing restrictions and avoid > GPL-3.0 code[2]. > > After talking to Grant Likely I decided that the best approach is to > make the bindings available under LGPL-v2.1-or-later and simply let the > end user decide which version's text to apply. > > While at it: tweak the README to also mention that examples are provided > under GPL-2.0-or-later. > > Link: [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-gpio/msg46605.html > Link: [2] https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod/issues/72 > Suggested-by: Walter Lozano > Suggested-by: Grant Likely > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski Acked-by: Kent Gibson