[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: LGPL license
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:28:55 -0700
Thanks Bert, but we already have permission from the BRLTTY project to use
LGPL, version unspecified. So their names should be removed.
As long as we are going to the trouble of writing all contributors I propose
to ask if the liblouis project can be given copyright as well. And we would
change the rules so that all contributions automatically assign copyright
unless specifically noted. Otherwise we are likely to face this kind of job
in the future when some unanticipated cation needs to be taken. Please
comment.
John G
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[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bert Frees
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 6:47 AM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: LGPL license
Hello John,
I finally managed to locate (hopefully) all contributors. It's become
quite a comprehensive list. See the AUTHORS file in the repository
(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liblouis/liblouis/master/AUTHORS).
It didn't manage to find everyone's email addresses. This is partly
because my history of the mailing list doesn't reach back far enough (I
joined the list in December 2009). If anyone has more info please
add it to the file.
The list includes the contributors of BRLTTY and Hyphen as well. I've
listed them all because it is impossible to trace back who actually
wrote the stuff that ended up in liblouis. As both libraries are LGPL
2.1, it's not necessary to ask for their permission when relicensing
liblouis under that same license AFAIK.
Everybody is welcome to improve this file with info about the nature of
their contributions. Don't make it too detailed though because then it
becomes hard to maintain.
Thanks,
Bert
John Gardner writes:
> If you can come up with a list of people who have contributed and who are
> not on the liblouis list, I'll be happy to contact them. I agree that it
is
> the most thorough way to handle the situation. From a purely legal
> viewpoint I still do not think it is necessary. But if you are willing to
> put in the effort to locate these contributors, I'm happy to write them.
If
> we can contact every single contributor, at least we will have the comfort
> of knowing that some objection will not pop up later.
>
> Be well.
> John G
>
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