Re: UMD license

Maybe I missed the beginning of this thread -- are you unable to contribute
under GPLv2?

Yes, the attribution to UM (which doesn't even really want it anymore..)
was what drove us to re-license, and I chose GPLv2 in part since it did a
good job of constraining Zmanda's behavior with respect to Amanda as a
whole.  So now the options are bsaically:

 1. contribute as yourself under GPL; or
 2. contribute as UM (via the UM license) and have your contribution then
incorporated into a GPL product and thus be covered by GPL

so if we add a third option it will be very similar to the second, meaning
you are still effectively contributing under GPLv2, just without
disclaiming ownership.

Dustin

2017-08-07 18:39 GMT-04:00 Chapman Flack <[email protected]>:

> Hi Jean-Louis,
>
> Thanks - I'll check with the higher-ups, but I think the straight
> BSD license will be easy to get cleared.
>
> -Chap
>
> On 08/07/2017 10:21 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> > Hi Chapman,
> >
> > Sorry for the delay, been in vacation and busy.
> >
> > Is it correct for you if I add the attached 'COPYRIGHT.BSD' file and
> > allow you to release under that license?
> >
> > Jean-Louis
> >
> >
> > On 19/06/17 10:20 AM, Chapman Flack wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> If a contribution is made under the UMD license, which is called
> >> "BSD-style" in [1], does that mean the exact language in [2], or
> >> with edits to show the copyright held by the contributor (as [1]
> >> provides)?
> >>
> >> When I compare it to an unaltered 3-clause BSD license [3],
> >> the UMD license seems to have taken out all references to
> >> "copyright holders" and "contributors" and replaced them
> >> with only "U.M." If new files get contributed with exactly that
> >> wording at the top, it's not clear any interests of the contributor
> >> are protected.
> >>
> >> I see that there have been past contributions from my place of work
> >> (by John R. Jackson) and they were made under UMD, and I tried looking
> >> through the repo to find the exact header at the top of any file he
> >> may have contributed, but all I could find was a file with
> >> no header at the top, so not quite the conclusive example I
> >> was looking for. :)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> -Chap
> >>
> >> [1]: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Licensing_your_Contribution
> >> <http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Licensing_your_Contribution>
> >> [2]: https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/blob/tags/3_2_3/COPYRIGHT
> >> <https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/blob/tags/3_2_3/COPYRIGHT>
> >> [3]: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
> >> <https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause>
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