From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759409Ab2DJU33 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:29:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24278 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755410Ab2DJU32 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:29:28 -0400 From: Paul Moore To: Josh Boyer , "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: libseccomp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Will Drewry , Kees Cook Subject: Re: ANN: libseccomp Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:29:17 -0400 Message-ID: <1673842.NkbWD6ec4k@sifl> Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: KMail/4.8.2 (Linux/3.3.1-gentoo; KDE/4.8.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1524909.RpscfJeEfO@sifl> References: <1540670.AFBi1SpGoi@sifl> <1524909.RpscfJeEfO@sifl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday, April 09, 2012 05:28:41 PM Paul Moore wrote: > On Monday, April 09, 2012 04:14:15 PM Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:02 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > On 04/09/2012 12:25 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > >> Do you think the GPLv2 license will limit adoption of it's usage across > > >> a wider variety of software projects? I'm not anti-GPL by any means > > >> but I am slightly surprised libseccomp is using it. > > >> > > >> josh > > > > > > Yes, on the surface of it this would seem more like LGPL material. > > > > > > Other than that, very much needed! > > > > Agreed on both points. I only brought this up now as it's very early > > in the project's lifetime. If a relicense were to happen it would be > > better to do it before a larger number of developers started > > contributing to the project. > > You both bring up a good point, the LGPL seems like a better choice. I > chose GPLv2 when I started simply out of habit; it is a license I am both > familiar and comfortable with so it has a tendency to get used when I start > a new chunk of code. > > As you pointed out, the project is still very new with only a handful of > authors beyond myself. I'll get in touch with them privately to make sure > they are comfortable with the relicense and assuming there are no problems > I'll report back when everything has been changed. Just an update, the project has just been relicensed under the LGPLv2.1 license. -- paul moore security and virtualization @ redhat