Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] eudev project announcement

[Luca Barbato]

On 12/15/2012 01:48 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
>>         The systemd developers were in the middle of a transition to the LGPL
>> from the GPL when we forked. We inherited the code in the middle of that
>> transition and we see no reason to pursue a different course. Therefore,
>> all future changes that we make to eudev will be available under the LGPL.
>
> Not sure what the driver is to use LGPL, but in general the Gentoo
> social contract requires that all contributions be made under GPLv2+
> or the CC BY-SAv2+.

"
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eudev is a Gentoo project is not Gentoo. Same could be said for OpenRC.

> Why not just use GPLv2+?  The LGPL is compatible, so this would not
> prevent us from merging udev changes.

udev and eudev provide:

- a daemon
- a set of core rules
- a library to let applications interact with udev (libudev)
- a generic language binding using glib-introspection (libgudev)

makes perfectly sense to have libraries using LGPL (or even more
permissive licenses).

I guess you misunderstood what is Gentoo and what is a Gentoo Project.

lu