Re: replacement header licenses

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 03:09 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>> The following replacement headers are all under LGPL instead of LGPLv2+
>>> licensing.  Any objection to relaxing them, so that projects like
>>> libvirt can use all the replacement headers for things like
>>> GNULIB_POSIXCHECK or passing Jim's recent maint.mk syntax check?
>>
>> You need the agreement of all contributors since 2007-10-28: When we
>> switched the implicit meaning of "LGPL" on that date, we promised that
>> all changes up until then could be reverted to LGPLv2+ on demand.
>>
>> The non-trivial contributors since 2007-10-28 are, according to 'git':
>>> inttypes        you, me, Paul
>>> math            you, me, Ben Pfaff
>
> Paul, Ben;
>
> are you okay with gnulib's replacement for inttypes.h and math.h being
> under LGPLv2+?

Paul replied privately:

    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:50:46 -0700

    Jim Meyering wrote:
    > Hi Paul,
    >
    > What do you think of relaxing the inttypes copyright to LGPLv2+?

    That's OK with me, as it's a standard header.

So I've adjusted the license:

>From f3d3c29083c0ed76347cc440bd2202c5a843e31a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:56:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] inttypes: relax license to LGPLv2+

* modules/inttypes (License): Relax license.
---
 ChangeLog        |    5 +++++
 modules/inttypes |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index db345d4..d9ea58a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-04-29  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
+
+       inttypes: relax license to LGPLv2+
+       * modules/inttypes (License): Relax license.
+
 2010-04-29  Simon Josefsson  <address@hidden>

        * top/maint.mk (indent): Run twice to produce idempotent results.
diff --git a/modules/inttypes b/modules/inttypes
index d0bbefc..575cb25 100644
--- a/modules/inttypes
+++ b/modules/inttypes
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Include:
 <inttypes.h>

 License:
-LGPL
+LGPLv2+

 Maintainer:
 all
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