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Re: license change of futimens was incomplete
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Eric Blake |
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Re: license change of futimens was incomplete |
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Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:30:32 -0500 |
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On 10/15/2016 09:14 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Can we change the license of the modules 'gettime', 'timespec', 'utimens'
> to 'LGPL'?
>
> Agreements are needed:
> - For gettime: from Paul, Jim.
> - For timespec: from Jim, Paul, Pádraig.
> - For utimens: from Paul, Eric, Jim, Bruno, Aurelien Jarno.
>
> You hereby have my agreement (since all these modules are suitable for use
> in libraries).
>
> Paul, Jim, Eric, Pádraig, Aurelien, can we have yours?
LGPL, or LGPLv2+?
I know we were reluctant to relicense openat and friends for a while,
because the fallback could abort (which is never safe for a library).
Is that still an issue for futimens?
But I'm okay with my contributions, whether to LGPL or even the looser
LGPLv2+.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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