[libcamera-devel] [PATCH/RFC] libcamera: proxy: Relicense proxy worker under LGPL

[Jacopo Mondi]

Hello,

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:14:03AM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> 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>

>From my side:
Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo at jmondi.org>

Thanks
  j

>
> > ---
> >  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.
> >   *
> >
>
> --
> Regards
> --
> Kieran