Eric Blake
2019-Sep-07 19:52 UTC
[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH] maint: Update reference to license info
Our README file claims that license info is in LICENSE, but we did not have a file by that name in the tarball. At least we did correctly ship COPYING.LIB since the library is LGPLv2+. --- The LGPL requires that the user also receive a copy of the GPL, since anyone can upgrade their copy from LGPL to GPL. Does that mean we should ship a copy of COPYING alongside COPYING.LIB? README | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index c591f4a..d6d1704 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ LICENSE The software is copyright © Red Hat Inc. and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 or above (LGPLv2+). See -‘LICENSE’ for details. +the file ‘COPYING.LIB’ for details. The examples are under a very +liberal license. BUILDING FROM SOURCE -- 2.21.0
Richard W.M. Jones
2019-Sep-07 20:00 UTC
Re: [Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH] maint: Update reference to license info
On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 02:52:58PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:> Our README file claims that license info is in LICENSE, but we did not > have a file by that name in the tarball. At least we did correctly > ship COPYING.LIB since the library is LGPLv2+. > --- > > The LGPL requires that the user also receive a copy of the GPL, since > anyone can upgrade their copy from LGPL to GPL. Does that mean we > should ship a copy of COPYING alongside COPYING.LIB? > > README | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/README b/README > index c591f4a..d6d1704 100644 > --- a/README > +++ b/README > @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ LICENSE > > The software is copyright © Red Hat Inc. and licensed under the GNU > Lesser General Public License version 2 or above (LGPLv2+). See > -‘LICENSE’ for details. > +the file ‘COPYING.LIB’ for details. The examples are under a very > +liberal license.ACK. (I didn't see you post this before I sent you privately my version, but this one is better. Once you've pushed it I will do a 1.0.1 release). Thanks, Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
Eric Blake
2019-Sep-07 20:07 UTC
Re: [Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH] maint: Update reference to license info
On 9/7/19 3:00 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:>> The software is copyright © Red Hat Inc. and licensed under the GNU >> Lesser General Public License version 2 or above (LGPLv2+). See >> -‘LICENSE’ for details. >> +the file ‘COPYING.LIB’ for details. The examples are under a very >> +liberal license. > > ACK. > > (I didn't see you post this before I sent you privately > my version, but this one is better. Once you've pushed > it I will do a 1.0.1 release).Yep, our mails crossed. I'm up-to-date on my commits now, so go ahead and cut the release when you are ready. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org