permission to re-license archive-zip.c and zlib.c as LGPL

Brandon Casey· Sep 23, 2011, 03:51 UTC · lore

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.

All comments welcome.

Thanks, -Brandon

René Scharfe· Sep 23, 2011, 16:34 UTC · re: Brandon Casey · lore

Re: permission to re-license archive-zip.c and zlib.c as LGPL

Am 23.09.2011 05:51, schrieb Brandon Casey:

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> 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