[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH] Update license to LGPLv3

Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia lagarcia at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Aug 1 15:19:11 UTC 2014


Reviewed-by: Leonardo Garcia <lagarcia at br.ibm.com>

On 07/31/2014 11:57 PM, Aline Manera wrote:
> As Kimchi depends on some imported code (src/kimchi/websocket.py and
> src/kimchi/websockify.py) under LGPLv3, its license also needs to be upgraded
> to LGPLv3.
>
> COPYING.LGPL was updated according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt
>
> As all Kimchi files have license header indicating LGPL 2.1 or later,
> they don't need to be updated.
>
> For reference: http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq
>
> Signed-off-by: Aline Manera <alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  COPYING      |   2 +-
>  COPYING.LGPL | 657 +++++++++++++++--------------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 498 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
> index 6129b48..1701a50 100644
> --- a/COPYING
> +++ b/COPYING
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  Kimchi is distributed pursuant to the terms of two different licenses.
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> diff --git a/COPYING.LGPL b/COPYING.LGPL
> index 4362b49..65c5ca8 100644
> --- a/COPYING.LGPL
> +++ b/COPYING.LGPL
> @@ -1,502 +1,165 @@
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