Permission to relicense yum code I've written
Menno Smits <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| 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