From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:34:50 GMT
Subject: Re: permission to re-license archive-zip.c and zlib.c as LGPL
Message-ID: <4E7CB52A.2090600@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CA+sFfMdzMCJut385jCJ88Z8sUw3E2Bs2A1SiECORQsFJjsb=Qg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 23.09.2011 05:51, schrieb Brandon Casey:
> To those who have contributed to archive-zip.c and zlib.c,
> 
> I'd like to make a library for writing zip files.  I really don't see
> another library out there that does it as easily as archive-zip.  So,
> with your consent, I'd like to re-license the code in archive-zip.c
> and zlib.c as LGPL so that I can create an archive-zip library.  The
> reason for LGPL, of course, is so that it can be linked with non-GPL
> code.
> 
> Please offer your consent to re-license your contributions under LGPL
> by replying to this email.

Fine with me; BSD or MIT style licenses would be OK as well.

Actually I'm a bit surprised that libarchive didn't grow ZIP write
support by now.

René