Re: parse-datetime license

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Ah, sorry, I thought you meant LGPL.  Still, the GNU project prefers
> GPLv3 these days, and changing this particular module to be v2 would
> probably require consultation with RMS to know the particulars.
> Please feel free to bug him about it (you'll need to bring him up to
> speed....).

Sorry my mistake, the license needed for inclusion in OSTree is
LGPLv2+.

I asked RMS and he agreed to change the license, I attached a patch that
changes the license accordingly.

Thanks,
Giuseppe

>From 271ebbd3e49f33e573bb5cf189479ef701a07161 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:00:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] parse-datetime: relax license to LGPLv2+, for OSTree

* modules/parse-datetime (License): Change from GPL to LGPLv2+.
---
 modules/parse-datetime | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/parse-datetime b/modules/parse-datetime
index 4842706..fb48136 100644
--- a/modules/parse-datetime
+++ b/modules/parse-datetime
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Include:
 "parse-datetime.h"
 
 License:
-GPL
+LGPLv2+
 
 Maintainer:
 Paul Eggert
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