[ClusterLabs Developers] [booth][sbd] GPLv2.1+ clarification request

Jan Pokorný jpokorny at redhat.com
Thu Mar 24 16:18:59 UTC 2016


On 22/03/16 19:18 +0100, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:03:12PM +0100, Jan Pokorný wrote:
>> On 18/03/16 16:16 +0100, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
>>> So I move to change it to GPLv2+, for everything that is a "program",
>>> and LGPLv2.1 for everything that may be viewed as a library.
>>> 
>>> At least that's how I will correct the wording in the
>>> affected files in the heartbeat mercurial.
>> 
>> In the light of the presented historic excursion, that feels natural.
>> 
>> Assuming no licensors want to speak up, the question now stands:
>> Is it the same conclusion that has been reached by booth and sbd
>> package maintainers (Dejan and Andrew respectively, if I follow what's
>> authoritative nowadays properly) and are these willing to act on it to
>> prevent the mentioned ambiguous interpretation once forever?
> 
> Yes, that's all fine with me.
> 
>> I will be happy to provide actual patches,
> 
> Even better :)

Added the "maint: clarify GPLv2.1+ -> GPLv2+ in the license notices"
(e294fa2) commit into https://github.com/ClusterLabs/booth/pull/23
if that's OK with you, Dejan.

-- 
Jan (Poki)
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