Comment 4 for bug 499788

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Seif Lotfy (seif) wrote : Re: [Zeitgeist] [Bug 499788] Re: License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later"

We have a slight issue with _zeitgeist/loggers/iso_strptime.py
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File _zeitgeist/loggers/iso_strptime.py is part of wadllib, which is
copyright © 2009 by Canonical Ltd. It is released under the following
license:

 wadllib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the
 terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
 Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

 wadllib is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
 WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for
more
 details.
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Does this somehow stand in our way. AFAIK it does -.-
Cheers
Seif

2009/12/23 Markus Korn <email address hidden>

> I agree under the same condition than Siegfried.
> I'm not a lawyer and not experienced enough with this kind of licensing
> stuff, so all I can do is trust you to make the best decision.
>
> Sorry for blocking this for such a long time, but I'm almost not
> following mailinglists, they are so web0.1 ;)
>
> --
> License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499788
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> Developers, which is the registrant for Zeitgeist Framework.
>
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework: New
>
> Bug description:
> There's a push to change the license of the codebase from "LGPL 3" to "LGPL
> 2.1 or later".
>
> As it stands we have full consent from Seif Lotfy and Mikkel Kamstrup.
> Siegfried Gevatter has made a conditional +1:
>
> "If _everyone_ else wants to switch from "LGPL3 or later" to "LGPL 2.1or
> later", I'm fine with it."
>
> Of the core contributors Markus Korn has not answered yet.
>
> If Markus agrees the next logical step is to create a list of other
> contributors we have that should be heard.
>
>
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