[CRIU] [PATCH] Add LGPL licence for library directory

[Pavel Emelyanov]

On 03/28/2013 02:05 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> We've received some requests to create a way to interface with crtools
> that doesn't involve forking the utilities, so we're going to create a
> linkable library for this.  In order to be fair, we plan to allow
> proprietary code to link with this library and thus want to change the
> licence of the CRIU code base to be LGPL *only* for this library
> directory, preserving the rest of the code as GPL.  Because creating the
> library may involve refactoring, I anticipate that some code that's
> currently GPL will have to move into lib/ and become LGPL (and this may
> occur in future as well), so I've amended the COPYING file to spell out
> for contributors that code outside lib/ is GPL and inside lib/ is LGPL,
> but that they give future permission to change the licence to GPL or
> LGPL if code has to move into (or out of) lib/, based on acceptance of a
> patch into the CRIU code base, so j random developer can't download the
> code and make it all LGPL by applying a private patch to move everything
> into lib/.
> 
> All the Parallels authors have agreed to this, but we have a couple of
> non parallels ones on the cc to this email I'd like explicit acks from.
> 
> Cc: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang at huawei.com>
> Cc: Andrew Grigorev <andrew at ei-grad.ru>
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley at Parallels.com>

Applied, thanks.