[Fedora-legal-list] License change from LGPL to BSD

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Sat Aug 27 13:45:15 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 18:26 +0900, TASAKA Mamoru wrote:
> lakshminaras2002 at gmail.com wrote, at 08/27/2011 04:09 PM +9:00:
> >  From version 1.1.5 , ghc-hslogger will be under BSD license. Earlier it was under LGPLv2 license. Is this change acceptable for Fedora?
> 
> Acceptable. Just announce it on devel list.

Since BSD allows a superset of what LGPLv2 allows, an announcement is
probably not necessary for compliance (though I would not contradict
official advice).  It would still serve to let people who cannot use
LGPLv2 content know that they can now use ghc-hslogger.

-- 
Matt




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