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Re: [PATCH] parse-duration: Lessen the GPL


From: Bruce Korb
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse-duration: Lessen the GPL
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:17:31 -0700
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On 06/10/12 16:19, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi Bruce,

Paul, Jim, Bruno, and Ralf as the set of all contributors
besides yourself (although some of those contributions were trivial)
before making this change.

They were all trivial, actually.

Well, I think 3-line comments as in the 2008-12-17 change [1] are
copyrightable, because there are many different ways to formulate such
a comment.

copyrightable != trivial
The work required to understand how to comment wasn't trivial.
Anyway, trivial difference in semantics:

But I agree to the proposed change to LGPL as well.

This should be LGPLv2+, as it allows a painless license upgrade when the FSF
releases a new version of the license. I've pushed this in your name:

Thank you.



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