Hi, On 29.11.2017 07:35, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Aurélien, > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 17:47:17 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> I have been reviewing the i2c-tools licensing, and it seems there is a >> contradiction between README and lib/smbus.c about the library >> licensing: >> >> From README: >> | The library is released under the LGPL version 2.1 or later, while most >> | tools are released under the GPL version 2 or later, but there are a few >> | exceptions. >> >> From lib/smbus.c: >> | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >> | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >> | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or >> | (at your option) any later version. >> >> On the other hand, the license in lib/Module.mk matches the one from >> README. >> >> I guess one of README or lib/smbus.c has to be fixed. Can someone >> clarify that? In meantime I think the library as a whole should be >> considered as GPL v2 or later. > > Thanks for pointing out this inconsistency, which I missed. So how is this going to be resolved? Can the original authors of the smbus.c contents be reached so that we can re-license it to LGPL? Or should the README simply get corrected? Thank you. Best regards Ondřej Lysoněk
