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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] util-linux: Update License Information (remove GPLv3 Licnese)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:16:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363511802.6710.16.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FC0195A5-8F7D-4750-95F6-53CEACBDEB31@gmail.com>

On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 22:03 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > The upstream authors have updated the licenses of a couple subcomponents,
> > these were GPLv3, but updated to be either GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 accordingly.
> > These changes make the util-linux package become completely non-GPLv3.
> 
> Is it possible to demote license from V3 to V2 like that  I wonder

The maintainer sought out approval from the copyright holders so yes.
The more people who've changed the files in question, the harder it
becomes.

Cheers,

Richard




  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-17  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-15 19:54 [PATCH] util-linux: Update License Information (remove GPLv3 Licnese) Saul Wold
2013-03-17  5:03 ` Khem Raj
2013-03-17  9:16   ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2013-03-17 20:03     ` Khem Raj

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