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Subject: Re: dbus: Proposed relicense to MIT/X11
From: Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=F8gsberg?= <krh () redhat ! com>
Date: 2007-09-19 20:37:30
Message-ID: 1190234250.7157.3.camel () hinata ! boston ! redhat ! com
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Go for it.
Kristian
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 16:20 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> [This email has been sent to the dbus mailing list and to anyone who has
> made a non-trivial dbus contribution and has not replied to the previous
> mailing (possibly due to bounces or some other reason). Hopefully this
> is the last mass-mailing on this topic.]
>
> You are receiving this email because you have, in some way, contributed
> to dbus.
>
> dbus is currently made available under the union of The Academic Free
> License version 2.1 and the GNU General Public License version 2.
>
> This combination of licences prevents some free software applications
> from legally using dbus. A very simple example is GPLv3 applications
> (GPL versions 2 and 3 are incompatible). There are other examples as
> well.
>
> There was a meeting of dbus developers at GUADEC and it was agreed by
> all present that it would be best to move dbus to a MIT/X11 style
> licence.
>
> The AFL 2.1 (under which dbus is currently available) is almost the same
> as the X11 licence except for the patent clause in the AFL. The patent
> clause is thought to be so weak as to be nearly ineffective. The clause
> causes confusion, though, and more importantly, introduces GPL
> incompatibility.
>
> The text of the proposed new licence (MIT/X11) is as follows:
>
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
> obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
> files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
> restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
> modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
> of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
> furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
> MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
> NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
> HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
> WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
> OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>
> Of course, in order to complete the relicense, we need the approval of
> all contributors to the affected code.
>
> Please "reply to all" to this email (ie: sending replies to
> <desrt@desrt.ca> and <dbus@lists.freedesktop.org>) indicating your
> willingness or unwillingness to have your contributions to dbus
> relicensed under the above terms.
>
> Even if you believe your contributions to be trivial, please reply.
>
> If you have no idea what this email is about, then I apologise, but
> still ask that you please contact me directly (Ryan Lortie
> <desrt@desrt.ca>).
>
> Cheers
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