[Yum] Asking permission to relicense yum code to LGPLv2+ for kitchen library

[Luke Macken]

On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:43 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> A few weeks ago skvidal, geppetto, and I were talking about how we have
> a lot of code that exists in yum that we end up reusing in other projects.
> These code snippets generally seem too small to put into its own library
> (like to_unicode and to_bytes) but it seems wrong to have something like
> func import the functions from yum.  So what generally happens is that the
> functions get copy and pasted around to lots of different projects that we
> work on.

[snip]

> For all of this code, I'm looking for permission from the following people:
> 
>   James Antill[*]_
>   James Bowes
>   Milos Komarcevic
>   Tim Lauridsen
>   Luke Macken
>   Ville Skyttä
>   Menno Smits
>   Seth Vidal[*]_
> 
> I'd like it if you could email permission to relicense to
> yum at lists.baseurl.org if you're already subscribed to the list.  That way we
> have a record that it's okay to relicense in the mailing list archives
> should we ever need it.

[snip]

I grant you permission to take any code out of yum that I've written and
put it into kitchen under the LGPLv2+. 

luke