[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: LGPL license
- From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:57:33 +0200
Hi John,
Okay that's all fine, but the AUTHORS file is for keeping a record of all
contributors so I'm gonna keep everything in there unless someone
explicitly renounces his copyright. Dave Mielke gave his permission to
re-license, but that doesn't mean he hasn't got copyright anymore, or does
it? If you're not writing to the BRLTTY authors just ignore that section.
Same for the Hyphen authors.
Asking to transfer the copyright to the liblouis project is good idea, it
will simplify things in the future. Good thinking. Not sure if we can just
do that automatically for new contributions, if not we can ask explicitly.
Bert
2014-06-11 16:28 GMT+02:00 John Gardner <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 6:47 AM
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> 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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