Hey, Right now systemd is licensed GPLv2+ for most stuff, with the exception of a few MIT licensed files. This has become a bit of a problem, since we probably want to allow closed source stuff to link to libsystemd-login.so and specifically libsystemd-journal.so (we want to allow closed source code to drop entries in the journal.)
Now, we could go and relicense only the files necessary for those two libs to LGPLv2.1+, but that wouldn't really be too efficient since those libraries share a lot of code with the rest of systemd. Also, and more importantly I want the ability to freely move code around in the various components of systemd, and if we have different licenses for a lot of this code this would be really difficult. Hence: I'd like to avoid further problems in this area and relicense the entirety of systemd from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ (with the exception of those MIT files which will stay MIT and which are very isolated from the rest, since they are designed as drop-in files for other projects). Unfortunately it's trivial to upgrade LGPL to GPL, but the other way round is more more difficult: To do this I need the OK from all contributors (well, at least those who contributed more than trivial bits). I'd hence like to ask for your OK, if you are listed on the list below. Please reply to me personally (please do not spam the mailing list! so really, just to me personally!) if you are OK with the license change, and also if you aren't. A. Costa Adrian Spinu Albert Strasheim Alexey Shabalin Andreas Jaeger Andrew Edmunds Andrey Borzenkov Barry Scott Bastien Nocera Bill Nottingham Brandon Philips Brendan Jones Brett Witherspoon Chris E Ferron Christian Ruppert Conrad Meyer Dan Horák Daniel J Walsh Dave Reisner Dexter Morgan Fabian Henze Fabiano Fidêncio Florian Kriener Franz Dietrich Frederic Crozat Gregs Gregs Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri Harald Hoyer Henry Gebhardt Jan Engelhardt Jeff Mahoney Jesse Zhang Jim Meyering Jonathan Nieder Josh Triplett Koen Kooi Lucas De Marchi Ludwig Nussel Luis Felipe Strano Moraes Maarten Lankhorst Malcolm Studd Marc-Antoine Perennou Marko Saukko Martin Mikkelsen Mathieu Bridon Matthew Miller Matthias Clasen Matthias Schiffer Michael Biebl Michael Olbrich Michael Tremer Michal Schmidt Michal Vyskocil Michał Górny Mike Kazantsev Mike Kelly Miklos Vajna Milan Broz Ozan Çağlayan Paolo Bonzini Paul Menzel Pavol Rusnak Piotr Drąg Rainer Gerhards Ran Benita Robert Gerus Sedat Dilek Tero Roponen Thierry Reding Thomas Jarosch Tim Waugh Tollef Fog Heen Tom Gundersen Tomasz Torcz Ville Skyttä William Douglas William Jon McCann William Swanson Wulf C. Krueger Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek "cee1" Please respond within a week or two. For all folks who have not responded in time we'll do a bit of a code audit and I'll try to contact them directly if necessary. But I'd prefer if I wouldn't have to do that. Thank you very much for your cooperation! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
