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    Add LGPL licence for library directory · 1b7cfe7d
    James Bottomley authored
    We've received some requests to create a way to interface with crtools
    that doesn't involve forking the utilities, so we're going to create a
    linkable library for this.  In order to be fair, we plan to allow
    proprietary code to link with this library and thus want to change the
    licence of the CRIU code base to be LGPL *only* for this library
    directory, preserving the rest of the code as GPL.  Because creating the
    library may involve refactoring, I anticipate that some code that's
    currently GPL will have to move into lib/ and become LGPL (and this may
    occur in future as well), so I've amended the COPYING file to spell out
    for contributors that code outside lib/ is GPL and inside lib/ is LGPL,
    but that they give future permission to change the licence to GPL or
    LGPL if code has to move into (or out of) lib/, based on acceptance of a
    patch into the CRIU code base, so j random developer can't download the
    code and make it all LGPL by applying a private patch to move everything
    into lib/.
    
    All the Parallels authors have agreed to this, but we have a couple of
    non parallels ones on the cc to this email I'd like explicit acks from.
    
    Cc: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
    Cc: Andrew Grigorev <andrew@ei-grad.ru>
    Signed-off-by: 's avatarJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
    Acked-by: 's avatarQiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: 's avatarPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
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