Fwd: permission to re-license strbuf subsystem as LGPL

From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 23, 2011, 15:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+sFfMcmsKkKM7C0g4vKmjmCCNqRHuvz-hwEHAm=+stqnOPpAw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+sFfMeRDQiqGhO9Y=k3tEnzdXjMx59huFE_fx6Y14cJxj1J=Q@mail.gmail.com>

Oops. I forgot to include the git mailing list on the email below. I intended to include the git mailing list for two reasons. 1) so that when people replied giving there permission it would become part of the public record, and 2) because maybe someone had already done this and they could speak up before I duplicated their effort.

The following people have already given their consent:

   Jeff King   (LGPL)
   Avery Pennarun   (LGPL)
   Jonathan Neider   (LGPL, ZLIB, Expat, BSD)
   Johannes Schindelin   (LGPL, BSD)
   Linus Torvalds   (LGPL)
   Alex Riesen   (LGPL)
   Marco Costalba   (LGPL)
   Lukas Sandström   (LGPL, BSD)
   Michal Rokos   (LGPL, BSD)
   Thomas Rast   (LGPL, BSD)

The following have not yet responded (the email just went out last night):

   Pierre Habouzit
   René Scharfe
   Junio C Hamano
   Kristian Høgsberg
   Johannes Sixt
   Frank Li
   Shawn O. Pearce

Jonathan Nieder suggested using a more permissive license than LGPL. BSD seems to have the most support. If the remaining contributors agree, then I'm fine with licensing under BSD.

Anyway, here is my original email requesting permission to re-license strbuf et al so that it can be made into a library...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:21 PM
Subject: permission to re-license strbuf subsystem as LGPL

To those who have contributed to git's strbuf subsystem,

I'd like to turn git's strbufs into a library. So with your consent I'd like to re-license the code in strbuf.c and strbuf.h, and any compat/ dependencies as LGPL so that I can create a strbuf library. Just skimming through strbuf.c, I'm thinking the other files that may be needed include ctype.c, compat/snprintf.c, and as little of wrapper.c as necessary (hopefully only xread). I think all of the authors are included in this email. 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.

All comments welcome.

Thanks, -Brandon

p.s. sorry for the mostly cut-n-paste email for those who also received my email about archive-zip