On 12/15/2012 01:48 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> 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
