Re: license relaxation request

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Eric,

> Can we relax the license of the following modules from LGPLv3+ down to 
> LGPLv2+, so that libvirt can use them, and on the grounds that they are 
> shipped as part of LGPLv2+ glibc?
> 
> grantpt
> unlockpt
> pt_chown
> ptsname
> ttyname_r

This is fine with me. ttyname_r is written by me, not from glibc, and I'm
not sure the code in glibc would help if someone would want to reimplement it.
But fine with me.

> I'm also planning on adding a posix_openpt module.

This is not needed. As you can see from the code in lib/openpt.c,
posix_openpt() is one part of openpty(). Since we have an openpty() that
works on all Unix platforms, and openpty() comes from the glibc API,
why should anyone want to use posix_openpt()?

Bruno
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