Re: rename, same-inode, unlink LGPL -> LGPLv2+?

[Simon Josefsson]

Volker Borchert <address@hidden> writes:

> In message <address@hidden> you write:
>
> |> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> |> 
> |> > Hi!  I'm using rename/unlink (the former depends on same-inode) in a
> |> > LGPLv2+ library and noticed they are marked as 'LGPL' in gnulib.
> |> > According to comments in files or git logs you have written parts of
> |> > these files.  Would you consider relicensing these under the LGPLv2+?
> |> > The files same-inode.h and unlink.c looks relatively trivial, although
> |> > rename.c looks a bit more complicated.
> |> 
> |> I got OK from everyone except Volker (which I'm now CC'ing with a
> |> possibly better address),
>
> This seems to indicate you are referring to changes and suggestions
> I made using address@hidden almost ten years ago. That adress became
> invalid in 2003, sorry.

Yes the small function I'm talking about is something you wrote in 2001.

> |> however as Jim noted off-list the old
> |> coreutils version control logs indicate that the contribution from
> |> Volker was small and no copyright papers were deemed necessary at the
> |> time.  I also noticed the code changed license before as well.  So I'm
> |> pushing the patch below.
>
> Don't worry, be happy. I am not a lawyer, especially not a U.S. one,
> so I won't put in writing any statements about licensing and copyright
> issues. But - had I been keen on copyright paperwork, I'd have stated
> that a that time, and had I been worried about copyright paperwork,
> I'd probably never have submitted the stuff.

Thanks -- the contribution seems small enough to not require paperwork.

(I'm cc'ing the bug-gnulib list to archive for historical purposes that
we actually got hold of you.)

/Simon