[PATCH 0/9] Relicensing Libabigail to Apache 2.0 + LLVM Exception

Dodji Seketeli dodji@redhat.com
Mon Jul 13 11:45:17 GMT 2020


Hello Mark,

Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:

> Hi Dodji,
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 04:05:20PM +0200, Dodji Seketeli via Libabigail wrote:
>> This patch series is to relicense the source code of the Libabigail
>> project to Apache 2.0 with LLVM Exception.
>> 
>> The rationale and the process of this change was recently presented in
>> a message sent to the mailing list of the project at
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libabigail/2020q2/002388.html.
>> 
>> This patch series needs to be reviewed and acknowledged by all the
>> copyright holders who contributed to the project.  These contributors
>> are all listed in the "To:" field of this message.
>
> As I said earlier I think dropping all copyleft is the wrong move for
> the project. And personally I feel this is very demotivating for
> contributing in the future.

I understand and respect your point of view ...

> But if you believe a majority of the contributors agrees with this
> change then I won't block it.

... and I therefore value and greatly appreciate this balanced stance of
yours.  Thank you for that.

> So, if you do get a majority of the contributors to add their
> Signed-of-by for the patches, then feel free to also add my
> Signed-off-by.

Thanks.

Cheers,

-- 
		Dodji



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