Re: what is license policy

Re: what is license policy

[Frank Rowand]

Hi Karel,

Ping.

-Frank


On 12/05/17 17:01, Frank Rowand wrote:
> Hi Karel,
> 
> Apologies if this is a repost, I do not see my original message in the archive.
> 
> I am trying to understand some things about the license policy for util-linux.
> 
> Can you please either confirm or correct what I think I have figured out from
> reading files in the repo and reading the mail list archive:
> 
>   - GPL v3 is discouraged
>   - but GPL v3 files will be accepted
>   - replacing a GPL v3 file with a GPLv2+, GPLv2, LGPLv2+, BSD with advertising,
>     or Public Domain license is a valid reason to replace an existing file
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Frank
> 

Re: what is license policy

[Karel Zak]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 02:24:23PM -0800, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 12/05/17 17:01, Frank Rowand wrote:

 Hmm... I don't see this mail in my mail storage. Sorry, for the
 delay.

> > I am trying to understand some things about the license policy for util-linux.
> > 
> > Can you please either confirm or correct what I think I have figured out from
> > reading files in the repo and reading the mail list archive:
> > 
> >   - GPL v3 is discouraged
> >   - but GPL v3 files will be accepted
> >   - replacing a GPL v3 file with a GPLv2+, GPLv2, LGPLv2+, BSD with advertising,
> >     or Public Domain license is a valid reason to replace an existing file

 Well, the current list of licenses is already large and I prefer to
 not introduce anything else if possible. 
 
 We did a change from GPLv3 to LGPLv2+ for one file in lib/ to keep it
 more usable as a library and GPLv3 to GPLv2 for lscpu. The change has
 been always accepted by code authors. 
 
 The util-linux package is random collection of very different tools
 with different licenses and we want to keep all the code usable
 together... (this is also reason why licenses are not our favorite
 topic ;-))

    Karel


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