Re: [Tracker] License of libtracker-sparql

[Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be>]

Hi guys,

And with this I publicly give permission to change every line of code
that I own copyright on for the Tracker project to relicense as LGPL.

So in case you see code copyrighted by me in Tracker that is currently
GPL, you have my permission to change this into LGPL.

This just to help making sure that whoever pushes a license change fix
from GPL to LGPL has the right to do this.

Kind regards,

Philip

On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 17:59 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 07/08/12 15:13, Richard Shephard wrote:
> > Dear All,
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> First of all, sorry your email took so long to get through, it was stuck 
> in the "waiting for approval" queue and I am still on holiday at this point.
>
> > In the main tree of Tracker (http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/tree),
> > the COPYING file gives GPLv2 as the license.
>
> Yes, I have to say, this is a little out of date and we should fix that.
>
> > In the src directory, the libtracker-sparql, the headers give LGPLv2.1.
> >
> > We want to use tracker but for a commercial product we donât want GPL code.
>
> I understand.
>
> > If we link against the libtracker-sparql library, would this be LGPL or
> > GPL license?
>
> LGPL. It's meant to be that anyway, the COPYING file is a file is a 
> standard template and you can see it dates back to 2008. We updated all 
> the libraries (maybe more) to be LGPL a few years back.
>
> Ultimately, the best way to check is to make sure all .h, .c and .vala 
> files (i.e. all sources needed to build libtracker-sparql) have the LGPL 
> header (to be sure). They should do. If they don't it's a bug.

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Philip Van Hoof
Software developer
Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be