LGPL to MIT or BSD?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hi Matt,

> I want to use GoYaml for an Apache project, but the LGPL is incompatible.
>
> Would there be any consideration of relicensing this under an Apache
> friendly license like MIT or BSD?

Canonical generally sticks to [AL]?GPL licenses, and we already have a
special allowance on Go-related packages to enable static linkage
which ought to handle most concerns people have.

That said, if you really can't use it, please let me know what your
project is. It's not usual, but I can always try to talk to people to
see if there's a chance of an exception.


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net