Re: license relaxation request

2011-10-20 Thread Simon Josefsson
ons 2011-10-19 klockan 17:30 -0600 skrev Eric Blake: > On 10/19/2011 04:28 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > > >> Would you mind also relaxing the license on openpty() to LGPLv2+, now > >> that all its components have been relaxed? > > > > This one is fine with me as well. > > Huh - in look

Re: license relaxation request

2011-10-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/19/2011 04:28 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Eric, Would you mind also relaxing the license on openpty() to LGPLv2+, now that all its components have been relaxed? This one is fine with me as well. Huh - in looking at that module, all the changes to lib/openpty.c are attributable to Brun

Re: license relaxation request

2011-10-19 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > Would you mind also relaxing the license on openpty() to LGPLv2+, now > that all its components have been relaxed? This one is fine with me as well. Bruno -- In memoriam Jerzy Popiełuszko

pt_chown [was: license relaxation request]

2011-10-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/19/2011 03:25 PM, Eric Blake wrote: Also, I got a build failure when trying to use the grantpt module in libvirt: CCLD libgnu.la CC pt_chown.o make[4]: *** No rule to make target `libgnu.a', needed by `pt_chown'. Stop. Looks like the gnulib-tool output is not considering the possibility o

Re: license relaxation request

2011-10-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/17/2011 05:58 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Eric, Can we relax the license of the following modules from LGPLv3+ down to LGPLv2+, so that libvirt can use them, and on the grounds that they are shipped as part of LGPLv2+ glibc? grantpt unlockpt pt_chown ptsname ttyname_r This is fine with

Re: license relaxation request

2011-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/17/2011 05:58 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Eric, Can we relax the license of the following modules from LGPLv3+ down to LGPLv2+, so that libvirt can use them, and on the grounds that they are shipped as part of LGPLv2+ glibc? grantpt unlockpt pt_chown ptsname ttyname_r This is fine with

Re: license relaxation request

2011-10-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > Can we relax the license of the following modules from LGPLv3+ down to > LGPLv2+, so that libvirt can use them, and on the grounds that they are > shipped as part of LGPLv2+ glibc? > > grantpt > unlockpt > pt_chown > ptsname > ttyname_r This is fine with me. ttyname_r is written by

license relaxation request

2011-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
Can we relax the license of the following modules from LGPLv3+ down to LGPLv2+, so that libvirt can use them, and on the grounds that they are shipped as part of LGPLv2+ glibc? I'm also planning on adding a posix_openpt module. grantpt unlockpt pt_chown ptsname ttyname_r -- Eric Blake ebl.