Re: replacement header licenses

[Bruno Haible]

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':
> fcntl-h         you, me, Paolo
> getopt-posix    you, me, glibc
> inttypes        you, me, Paul
> locale          you, me
> math            you, me, Ben Pfaff
> pty             you, me
> sched           me
> search          you, me
> spawn           you, me
> stdarg          me
> sysexits        --
> 
> For the record, I'm okay with my contributions being relaxed

I'm OK with mine too.

glibc is still under LGPLv2+.

So you still need the agreement of Paolo, Paul, and Ben.

Bruno