[libcamera-devel] [PATCH/RFC] libcamera: proxy: Relicense proxy worker under LGPL
Kieran Bingham
kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com
Mon May 11 10:14:03 CEST 2020
Hi Laurent,
On 08/05/2020 02:35, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> The proxy worker is licensed under the GPL. It is compiled as a binary
> separate from libcamera.so, and it is our understanding and intent that
> the GPL license doesn't propagate to libcamera.so. However, as the
> worker is executed by libcamera.so, the GPL license may cause concerns
> in this context, regardless of whether the concerns are valid or not.
>
> This uncertainty could be addressed by a combination of a legal review
> and an explicit intent clarification from the copyright holders. A
> simpler option is to relicense the code under the LGPL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
This file was created by Paul, and also has a modification from Jacopo,
so lets try to get their explicit Ack, but this is fine with me.
Acked-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
> ---
> src/libcamera/proxy/worker/ipa_proxy_linux_worker.cpp | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/libcamera/proxy/worker/ipa_proxy_linux_worker.cpp b/src/libcamera/proxy/worker/ipa_proxy_linux_worker.cpp
> index 7d6287c7115b..9cefa2405e19 100644
> --- a/src/libcamera/proxy/worker/ipa_proxy_linux_worker.cpp
> +++ b/src/libcamera/proxy/worker/ipa_proxy_linux_worker.cpp
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */
> /*
> * Copyright (C) 2019, Google Inc.
> *
>
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Regards
--
Kieran
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