Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 03:09 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> 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':
>>> inttypes you, me, Paul
>>> math you, me, Ben Pfaff
>
> Paul, Ben;
>
> are you okay with gnulib's replacement for inttypes.h and math.h being
> under LGPLv2+?
Paul replied privately:
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:50:46 -0700
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> What do you think of relaxing the inttypes copyright to LGPLv2+?
That's OK with me, as it's a standard header.
So I've adjusted the license:
>From f3d3c29083c0ed76347cc440bd2202c5a843e31a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:56:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] inttypes: relax license to LGPLv2+
* modules/inttypes (License): Relax license.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
modules/inttypes | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index db345d4..d9ea58a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-04-29 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
+
+ inttypes: relax license to LGPLv2+
+ * modules/inttypes (License): Relax license.
+
2010-04-29 Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org>
* top/maint.mk (indent): Run twice to produce idempotent results.
diff --git a/modules/inttypes b/modules/inttypes
index d0bbefc..575cb25 100644
--- a/modules/inttypes
+++ b/modules/inttypes
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Include:
<inttypes.h>
License:
-LGPL
+LGPLv2+
Maintainer:
all
--
1.7.1.328.g9993c
