Permission to relicense yum code I've written

Menno Smits <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Toshio,

I give you permission to take any code I've committed to the yum, 
yum-utils, createrepo and urlgrabber projects and use it for the kitchen 
project using the LGPL license, version 2 or later.

All the best,
Menno

On 29/05/10 19:43, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Bcc:
> Subject: Asking permission to relicense yum code to LGPLv2+ for kitchen
>   library
> Reply-To:  [email protected]
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> A few weeks ago skvidal, geppetto, and I were talking about how we have
> a lot of code that exists in yum that we end up reusing in other projects.
> These code snippets generally seem too small to put into its own library
> (like to_unicode and to_bytes) but it seems wrong to have something like
> func import the functions from yum.  So what generally happens is that the
> functions get copy and pasted around to lots of different projects that we
> work on.
>
> I volunteered to put these functions together into a kind of miscellaneous
> library.  Something that has a lot of little code snippets that are too
> useful to reinvent everywhere but too small to exist on their own.  So for
> the past couple weeks I've been working on that project under the name
> kitchen:
>
>    https://fedorahosted.org/kitchen/
>    https://fedorahosted.org/releases/k/i/kitchen/docs/
...
> I'll track who has granted permission for what on this page:
>    https://fedorahosted.org/kitchen/wiki/RelicenseLGPL
> with links to the email in the archives.
>
> .. _[*] James Antill and Seth Vidal have already granted me permission to
> relicense but if they'll be kind enough to post messages to this list, all
> the emails will be in the archives which will simplify record keeping.
>
> Thanks you for considering this,
> -Toshio
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