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

Dejan Muhamedagic dejanmm at fastmail.fm
Fri May 6 11:23:19 UTC 2016


On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 04:53:57PM +0200, Jan Pokorný wrote:
> On 05/04/16 12:33 +0200, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:27:20PM +0200, Jan Pokorný wrote:
> >> On 24/03/16 17:18 +0100, Jan Pokorný wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >> 
> >> I hope we are all on the same page as Andrew went ahead there (thanks).
> >> Alas, I've noticed there were some subtleties neglected in there so,
> >> with regrets, a separate (and hopefully final) pull request:
> >> 
> >> https://github.com/ClusterLabs/booth/pull/24
> > 
> > This got merged too. Thanks!
> 
> Neverending story, it seems.  Regrettably, please accept also
> https://github.com/ClusterLabs/booth/pull/33 to call this license
> clarification effort complete, Dejan.

Will take a look.

Cheers,

Dejan

> -- 
> Jan (Poki)



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