Need to relicence xattr wrappers (FreeBSD xattr support for Samba4)

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Jun 1 17:54:06 MDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:58 -0700, Herb Lewis wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 03:23 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 14:41 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >> I've worked on a series of patches to move our source3/lib/system.c
> >> xattr wrappers to libreplace:
> >>
> >> https://git.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/xattr
> >>
> >> I've checked them on my FreeBSD 8.2 VM (naturally, further comments most
> >> welcome).
> >>
> >> What I do need however is your (as listed copyright holders) permission
> >> to relicence your code from lib/system.c to the LGPLv3 or later, to
> >> match the rest of libreplace.
> >>
> >> If you could let me know, I can then proceed to ensure this support is
> >> available for Samba 4.0 beta1.
> > Thanks to all who replied.  I checked the git history, and it seems the
> > other person who did a lot of work here is Herb.
> >
> > Herb,
> >
> > Is it OK if I re-licence your IRIX xattr handling code in lib/system.c
> > to the LGPL?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
> Fine with me to go to LGPLv3 or later

To make it easier to track in the future, would you like me to add your
copyright line?

Copyright (C) Herb Lewis            2003

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org



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