[Dovecot] Dovecot-auth relicensing to BSD/MIT

Andrey Panin pazke at donpac.ru
Thu Jun 15 13:32:05 EEST 2006


On 152, 06 01, 2006 at 12:28:01PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 18:18 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > I've been thinking about separating the dovecot-auth to be a separate
> > package for a while too, although only around the time when Dovecot v2.0
> > is released (certainly not before v1.0).
> > 
> > So, I think changing the Dovecot-auth's license from LGPL to BSD or MIT
> > wouldn't really hurt and it could get it more widely used. 
> 
> Thanks to everyone who owned copyrights to Dovecot-auth for allowing
> this change. Everyone have now allowed a switch to MIT license and all
> but one allowed BSD, so MIT it is.
> 
> Everything in src/auth, src/lib-sql and lib-ntlm is now MIT licensed.
> 
> The code depends on src/lib however, and there are still a couple of
> LGPL licensed parts in it:
> 
>  - hmac-md5.c : I guess this could just be changed to MIT since both
> Andrey and Joshua agreed to the change elsewhere
>  - ioloop-epoll.c : Andrey's code again.

Forgot about these files. Of course I agree to change licenese for them.

BTW, Timo, did you receive my NTLM-related patches ?

>  - ioloop-kqueue.c : Vaclav's code. His approval needed.
>  - ioloop-notify-kqueue.c : Vaclav's code again.
>  - primes.c : I've basically rewritten the code, only the prime number
> list is copied from GLib. I don't think they can claim copyright for a
> list of primes. :)
>  - printf-upper-bound.c : This is a problem. It's clearly copyrighted by
> GLib people and I don't think there's any way to get the license
> changed. It's also very heavily used in Dovecot, so this would require a
> rewrite. I don't really feel like doing it right now, so if you're
> interested, patches are welcome :)

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