Re: [Libguestfs] Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:51:11PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > libguestfs (an LGPLv2+ library) uses the 'hash' module, which turns > out to be "GPL". > > Actually this happened because we started to use it in a separate > GPL'd utility program, but later on included this functionality in the > core library, copying the same code from the utility but not checking > the license of 'hash'. > > We'd therefore like to request that 'hash' is relicensed as LGPLv2+. > If this is not possible, we will have to rewrite the code, probably > implementing our own hash table, which would be a shame because hash > works well for our needs. > > Notes: > > - the code doesn't appear to call exit (it does call abort), and so > seems to be suitable for a library > > - hash-pjw which we also use is already licensed as LGPLv2+ > > - it looks like the original author was Jim Meyering (CC'd) > > - the dependencies are all LGPLv2+ I'm going to write (or find) a new hash implementation for libguestfs really soon. Is there any final chance this will be relicensed?