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Consider relicensing pystemd away from BSD+Patents #18

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Conan-Kudo opened this issue Feb 26, 2019 · 4 comments
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Consider relicensing pystemd away from BSD+Patents #18

Conan-Kudo opened this issue Feb 26, 2019 · 4 comments
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Would you guys consider relicensing pystemd away from BSD+Patents to either plain BSD-3-Clause or LGPL-2.1+ (the same license as libsystemd, which is a dependency of this)?

The BSD+Patents license is confusing and concerning for us in the ManaTools project for leveraging the module.
@Conan-Kudo Conan-Kudo changed the title Relicense pystemd away from BSD+Patents? Consider relicensing pystemd away from BSD+Patents Feb 26, 2019
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We are discussing this internally, will comment here when we have an update.

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@davide125 To give you an idea of what we want to use this for: we're looking to remake the manaservice tool in Python for managing services, and it'd be great if we can use this module to simplify the work to do that. However, our developers are skittish about the current license, which prompted me to request it to be relicensed.

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We have the go ahead from the lawyers to relicense this project to LGPL-2.1+. I'll make the necessary changes, and the next release will be under the new license.

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Excellent, thanks!

davide125 added a commit to davide125/pystemd that referenced this issue Mar 13, 2019
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Relicense to LGPL 2.1 or later
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Summary:
Relicense the project from BSD+Patents to LGPL-2.1+ and drop the
patent grant. Closes systemd#18.

Differential Revision: D14445222

fbshipit-source-id: f1a3f349c1bc69f2d3bf4fa2db415ec2e775f5b0
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