From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C1E1381F3 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F055C21C015; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 330ED21C010 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.91] (dynamic-adsl-84-221-224-16.clienti.tiscali.it [84.221.224.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: lu_zero) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 04C5633DC99 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <50CC9A8C.1090300@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:43:08 +0100 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121126 Thunderbird/16.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] eudev project announcement References: <50CBF400.2060104@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 56c810eb-5950-40bc-a174-35174eaca741 X-Archives-Hash: 9acf74dec8d3c4ea0975ccb2d2e348ac On 12/15/2012 01:48 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Richard Yao wrote: >> The systemd developers were in the middle of a transition to the LGPL >> from the GPL when we forked. We inherited the code in the middle of that >> transition and we see no reason to pursue a different course. Therefore, >> all future changes that we make to eudev will be available under the LGPL. > > Not sure what the driver is to use LGPL, but in general the Gentoo > social contract requires that all contributions be made under GPLv2+ > or the CC BY-SAv2+. " We will release our contributions to Gentoo as free software, metadata or documentation, under the GNU General Public License version 2 (or later, at our discretion) or the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike version 2 (or later, at our discretion). Any external contributions to Gentoo (in the form of freely-distributable sources, binaries, metadata or documentation) may be incorporated into Gentoo provided that we are legally entitled to do so. However, Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). " eudev is a Gentoo project is not Gentoo. Same could be said for OpenRC. > Why not just use GPLv2+? The LGPL is compatible, so this would not > prevent us from merging udev changes. udev and eudev provide: - a daemon - a set of core rules - a library to let applications interact with udev (libudev) - a generic language binding using glib-introspection (libgudev) makes perfectly sense to have libraries using LGPL (or even more permissive licenses). I guess you misunderstood what is Gentoo and what is a Gentoo Project. lu