Re: LGPL relicense port of rsync

2016-01-24 Thread Per Lundqvist
2016-01-24 18:53 GMT+01:00 Martin Pool : ... >> You might be right but I am a bit hesitant. >> >> >> http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/58338/when-porting-code-must-i-follow-the-original-license >> >> http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/90232/original-author-rights-in-a-lice

Re: LGPL relicense port of rsync

2016-01-24 Thread Martin Pool
> > > > > > > I guess I could write an initial protocol specification - but it would > > > not be complete and I wouldn't be able to relicense my library to > > > LGPL anyway. > > > > > > So I guess I have convinced myself that it is not worth the effort > > > trying. Time is probably better spent

Re: LGPL relicense port of rsync

2016-01-24 Thread Per Lundqvist
Hi Martin, 2016-01-23 18:41 GMT+01:00 Martin Pool : > It seems like yajsync is a reimplementation of rsync's protocol by looking > at the GPL'd C rsync source, but it doesn't actually include any code from > rsync. Is that right? Yes correct, it is a complete rewrite in Java. Most of it is comple

Re: LGPL relicense port of rsync

2016-01-24 Thread Per Lundqvist
Hi Andrey, 2016-01-23 4:02 GMT+01:00 Andrey Gursky : ... > If they don't want to bother with just discussing, why would they take a > big effort to claim? And your proposition for LGPL is not very > different in opposite to BSD or public domain. Yes, I agree. The risk of having a future lawsuit a

Re: LGPL relicense port of rsync

2016-01-22 Thread Andrey Gursky
Hi, from my point of view: On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:48:09 +0100 Per Lundqvist wrote: > ... > > Getting the approval for a relicensing I think the contributions to > > rsync have to be analyzed in detail to approach a reasonable number of > > contributors. > > > > I experienced that finding a respo

Re: LGPL relicense port of rsync

2016-01-09 Thread Per Lundqvist
... > Getting the approval for a relicensing I think the contributions to > rsync have to be analyzed in detail to approach a reasonable number of > contributors. > > I experienced that finding a responsible person that is willing to > discuss such a case in an organization that contributed source

Re: LGPL relicense port of rsync

2016-01-08 Thread Florian Sager
Am 07.01.2016 um 23:26 schrieb Per Lundqvist: > Hi, > > I am maintaining a port of rsync (https://github.com/perlundq/yajsync) > which is GPL:ed of course. The main purpose of the project is to > provide a Java API library for the rsync protocol. It would > therefore be really nice to be able to us

LGPL relicense port of rsync

2016-01-07 Thread Per Lundqvist
Hi, I am maintaining a port of rsync (https://github.com/perlundq/yajsync) which is GPL:ed of course. The main purpose of the project is to provide a Java API library for the rsync protocol. It would therefore be really nice to be able to use LGPL as the license. But in order to do so I would fir