Change in license

[sg-]

Interest in littlefs is growing and we’d like to enable users to combine it with other open source projects, regardless of license. Unfortunately, due to the Free Software Foundation considering Apache-2.0 to be incompatible with GPL-2.0, this creates a limitation for some open source projects.

In order to continue the growth of littlefs and enable friction-less combination with other open source projects, we are seeking to change the license for littlefs from Apache-2.0 to BSD-3-Clause. We have emailed all contributors to request permission to change the license. If you have been a contributor and received an email, please help us continue the development of littlefs by responding! Future contributions will be based on inbound = outbound BSD-3-Clause and pending contributions will need to be rebased on master after the license change has taken place to enact the appropriate inboud=outbound license.

Thanks for all the support and interest in littlefs 👍

[jlovejoy]

@aldot , @jrast , @Sim4n6 - as previous contributors to littlefs, can you please provide your permission to re-license your contributions under BSD-3-Clause? (in the spirit of openness and transparency, we are asking all contributors, no matter the contribution to affirm). Thanks!

[Sim4n6]

Ok go ahead Le ven. 15 juin 2018 à 17:47, Jilayne Lovejoy <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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@aldot <https://github.com/aldot> , @jrast <https://github.com/jrast> , @Sim4n6 <https://github.com/Sim4n6> - as previous contributors to littlefs, can you please provide your permission to re-license your contributions under BSD-3-Clause? (in the spirit of openness and transparency, we are asking all contributors, no matter the contribution to affirm). Thanks! — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#59 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMbr83-DTcYxn9_C82xGYD4Keb1rzdbyks5t8_MZgaJpZM4Ujcwn> .

[jrast]

Shure, go ahead! Jilayne Lovejoy <notifications@github.com> schrieb am Fr., 15. Juni 2018, 20:47:

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@aldot <https://github.com/aldot> , @jrast <https://github.com/jrast> , @Sim4n6 <https://github.com/Sim4n6> - as previous contributors to littlefs, can you please provide your permission to re-license your contributions under BSD-3-Clause? (in the spirit of openness and transparency, we are asking all contributors, no matter the contribution to affirm). Thanks! — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#59 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAI7wX7BamubxLDFCRZ198g67DCZmqNKks5t8_MYgaJpZM4Ujcwn> .

[pabigot]

The current v2 lfs.c is Apache-2.0 licensed at the top of the file. Maybe the change got lost in the version rev.

[geky]

Ah! That is incorrect. Thanks for point it out, I will fix it. The license is still BSD-3-Clause.