From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>, libguestfs@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:51:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131105155141.GA10094@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130828175111.GA31307@redhat.com>
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:51:11PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> libguestfs (an LGPLv2+ library) uses the 'hash' module, which turns
> out to be "GPL".
>
> Actually this happened because we started to use it in a separate
> GPL'd utility program, but later on included this functionality in the
> core library, copying the same code from the utility but not checking
> the license of 'hash'.
>
> We'd therefore like to request that 'hash' is relicensed as LGPLv2+.
> If this is not possible, we will have to rewrite the code, probably
> implementing our own hash table, which would be a shame because hash
> works well for our needs.
>
> Notes:
>
> - the code doesn't appear to call exit (it does call abort), and so
> seems to be suitable for a library
>
> - hash-pjw which we also use is already licensed as LGPLv2+
>
> - it looks like the original author was Jim Meyering (CC'd)
>
> - the dependencies are all LGPLv2+
I'm going to write (or find) a new hash implementation for libguestfs
really soon. Is there any final chance this will be relicensed?
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-05 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-28 17:51 Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+ Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-09 8:11 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-12 15:33 ` Eric Blake
2013-09-12 15:36 ` Simon Josefsson
2013-09-12 16:51 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-12 17:05 ` Eric Blake
2013-09-12 17:39 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-19 12:23 ` Relicensing policy & weak copyleft Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-19 15:17 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-19 21:40 ` Karl Berry
2013-09-19 21:47 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-19 21:52 ` Karl Berry
2013-09-19 22:44 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-23 9:31 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-23 15:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-22 17:33 ` Bruno Haible
2013-11-05 15:51 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2013-11-05 16:29 ` Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+ Jim Meyering
2013-11-05 16:53 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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