[packagekit] Python bindings part 2

Aidan Skinner aidan at skinner.me.uk
Sun Aug 3 07:01:47 PDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 09:12 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:

> PackageKit is GPLv2+, all the libraries are supposed to be LGPL2+ --
> there might be a few files mislabelled in libpackagekit by that was my
> aim.

Everything under python/ seems to be GPLv2. It would be quite useful if
they could be LGPL2.1+ so things like package.py could be used.

> > I don't have particularly strong feelings either way (the client I'm
> > porting to PackageKit is GPlv2 anyway) and would tend towards GPL for
> > consistency, but I'm not sure what license Jockey is under, Martin?
> 
> I would prefer the python stuff to be LGPL2+ if possible. Thanks!

Cool, I've pushed it as LGPL2.1+.

- Aidan

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