Re: [PATCH 3/4] python/qmp-shell: relicense as LGPLv2+

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 11:07 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 04:04:37PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> > qmp-shell is presently licensed as GPLv2 (only). I intend to include
> > this tool as an add-on to an LGPLv2+ library package hosted on
> > PyPI.org. I've selected LGPLv2+ to maximize compatibility with other
> > licenses while retaining a copyleft license.
> >
> > To keep licensing matters simple, I'd like to relicense this tool as
> > LGPLv2+ as well in order to keep the resultant license of the hosted
> > release files simple -- even if library users won't "link against" this
> > command line tool.
> >
> > Therefore, I am asking permission from the current authors of this
> > tool to loosen the license. At present, those people are:
> >
> > - John Snow (me!), 411/609
> > - Luiz Capitulino, Author, 97/609
> > - Daniel Berrangé, 81/609
> > - Eduardo Habkost, 10/609
> > - Marc-André Lureau, 6/609
> > - Fam Zheng, 3/609
> > - Cleber Rosa, 1/609
> >
> > (All of which appear to have been written under redhat.com addresses.)
> >
> > Eduardo's fixes are largely automated from 2to3 conversion tools and may
> > not necessarily constitute authorship, but his signature would put to
> > rest any questions.
> >
> > Cleber's changes concern a single import statement change. Also won't
> > hurt to ask.
> >
> > CC: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
> > CC: Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> > CC: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@habkost.com>
> > CC: Marc-André Lureau <mlureau@redhat.com>
> > CC: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>
> > CC: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  python/qemu/aqmp/qmp_shell.py | 7 ++++---
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Acked-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
>

Thanks!

That's a wrap :)

>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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