Re: Licensing of modules for libposix

[Reuben Thomas]

On 4 May 2011 09:43, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> On 4 May 2011 09:08, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> getgroups, tzset
>>>>
>>>> Jim's. Jim?
>>>
>>> Relaxing to LGPL for those three modules is fine by me.
>>> However, note that Paul is listed as coauthor of tzset.m4
>>> and Eric as the other "Maintainer" in modules/getgroups.
>>
>> That doesn't seem to matter, since tzset.m4 is under "unlimited
>> permission" and one doesn't require a maintainer's permission to
>> relicense, only an author's.
>
> Very few people end up being listed as a gnulib module maintainer
> if they are not also an author (aka patch contributor).
>
> To determine "authorship", you must look at the commit logs:
>
>    $ git log --pretty=format:%aN lib/getgroups.c|sort |uniq -c

OK, so we have:

$ ls 
*/{acosl,asinl,atanl,cosl,expl,logl,sinl,sqrtl,tanl,isfinite,tmpfile,fflush,futimens,nanosleep,getgroups,tzset,strtoimax,strtoumax}.*
|xargs git log --pretty=format:%aN |sort |uniq -c
      3 Ben Pfaff
     54 Bruno Haible
      1 Derek R. Price
     34 Eric Blake
     67 Jim Meyering
      1 Paolo Bonzini
     39 Paul Eggert
      1 Ralf Wildenhues
      1 Simon Josefsson

Would any of those who read this please say whether they're happy to
relicense their contribution to the above-listed modules as LGPL? Any
who don't reply I can write to.

Jim, let me know if you think I've missed anything still.

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