gnulib/poll.c license

[Thomas Martitz]

Dear folks,

I am on a mission to port Pulseaudio (PA) to Windows. PA relies heavily
on poll() and this is not properly implemented for Windows. I found your
poll() implementation and it works well (with some changes, which I
will happily share with you). However there is a license issue. PA is
licensed under LGPL (2.1) which is incompatible with GPL (2 or later).

Thus, I would like to as you kindly if you could grant us a copy of
poll.c under a compatible license. This would help us immensely. Would
you please consider this?

As you can see in the quoted mail below I already contacted the original 
author, Paolo Bonzini, who is fine with that for the Pulseaudio project.

Best regards.


Am 24.10.2012 10:43, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:



> Il 24/10/2012 08:47, Thomas Martitz ha scritto:
> > Dear Paolo Bonzini,
> >
> > I am on a mission to port Pulseaudio (PA) to Windows. PA relies heavily
> > on poll() and this is not properly implemented for Windows. I found your
> > poll() implementation[1] and it works well (with some changes, which I
> > will happily share with you). However there is a license issue. PA is
> > licensed under LGPL (2.1) which is incompatible with GPL (2 or later).
> >
> > Thus, I would like to as you kindly if you could grant us a copy of
> > poll.c under a compatible license. This would help us immensely. Would
> > you please consider this?
> I cannot do this alone, but I agree with the licensing change so you can
> send email to address@hidden and copy the following people:
>
> - Yoann Vandoorselaere <address@hidden>
> - Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> - Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> - Erik Faye-Lund <address@hidden>
> - Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> - Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
>
> Paolo