Re: [PATCH] parse-duration: Lessen the GPL

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Bruce,

> > Paul, Jim, Bruno, and Ralf as the set of all contributors
> > besides yourself (although some of those contributions were trivial)
> > before making this change.
> 
> They were all trivial, actually.

Well, I think 3-line comments as in the 2008-12-17 change [1] are
copyrightable, because there are many different ways to formulate such
a comment.

But I agree to the proposed change to LGPL as well.

> diff --git a/modules/parse-duration b/modules/parse-duration
> index e36c917..e14f485 100644
> --- a/modules/parse-duration
> +++ b/modules/parse-duration
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Include:
>   "parse-duration.h"
> 
>   License:
> -GPL
> +LGPLv2
> 
>   Maintainer:
>   Bruce Korb

This should be LGPLv2+, as it allows a painless license upgrade when the FSF
releases a new version of the license. I've pushed this in your name:


2012-06-10  Bruce Korb  <address@hidden>

        parse-duration: Relicense under LGPLv2+.
        * modules/parse-duration (License): Change to LGPLv2+.

--- modules/parse-duration.orig Mon Jun 11 01:09:46 2012
+++ modules/parse-duration      Mon Jun 11 01:08:08 2012
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 "parse-duration.h"
 
 License:
-GPL
+LGPLv2+
 
 Maintainer:
 Bruce Korb



[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=6c95f03dbe22357828df688bc272f893afff4492