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From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] root-uid: new module
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FEB1509.6090107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEB1189.80902@cwilson.fastmail.fm>

On 6/27/2012 9:58 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Those three files are under slightly
> different licenses, but are MIT/X-ish.

Oops, I should have scrolled down farther. Looks like winpriv.c was
further modified by Jari Aalto, and actually sports a GPLv2+ license
(and re-reading the license of the code Jari(?) adopted from Chris, it
seems like a combo of BSD with the MIT/X disclaimer tacked on). Either
way, it should be compatible with the needs of gnulib.

I, and I hope all those associated with the code, would be willing to
release it to gnulib under a plain old LGPLv3+ license -- or even a
more permissive one. (dunno if Chris Rodgers is still contactable, tho).

But before we try contacting everybody for a license change, take a look
and see if it even contains the stuff you want/need.

--
Chuck


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      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-27 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <4FEA4D53.3090409@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <4FEA4FDB.5030105@cs.ucla.edu>
2012-06-27  0:19     ` Eric Blake
2012-06-27  7:54       ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-06-27 14:13         ` Paul Eggert
2012-06-27 13:58       ` Charles Wilson
2012-06-27 14:13         ` Charles Wilson [this message]

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