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Re: `count-one-bits' -> LGPLv2+


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: `count-one-bits' -> LGPLv2+
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:50:50 -0600
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According to Ben Pfaff on 8/22/2008 9:56 AM:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> 
>> Would you be OK to relicense `count-one-bits' under LGPLv2+ for use in
>> Guile 1.9 (aka. the development branch)?
> 
> I don't know who gets to make these decisions, but as the
> module's maintainer I'm fine with that.

As author, you are entitled to make that change.  And I agree that
count-one-bits is library quality (since it can often be a thin wrapper
around a special assembly instruction).  So I went ahead and pushed this
commit:

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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>From a428fac0e9534d605382b75a647bd067b5d2e551 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:45:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] count-one-bits: relax license
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* modules/count-one-bits (License): Relicense to LGPLv2+.
Suggested by Ludovic Courtès, approved by Ben Pfaff.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
---
 ChangeLog              |    6 ++++++
 modules/count-one-bits |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1071a1c..b0cf69e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-08-22  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       count-one-bits: relax license
+       * modules/count-one-bits (License): Relicense to LGPLv2+.
+       Suggested by Ludovic Courtès, approved by Ben Pfaff.
+
 2008-08-22  Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden>
 
        * m4/obstack-printf-posix.m4 (gl_FUNC_OBSTACK_PRINTF_POSIX):
diff --git a/modules/count-one-bits b/modules/count-one-bits
index 84160d3..6d273cf 100644
--- a/modules/count-one-bits
+++ b/modules/count-one-bits
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Include:
 "count-one-bits.h"
 
 License:
-GPL
+LGPLv2+
 
 Maintainer:
 Ben Pfaff
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