Re: Announcement of License Changes to IBM Developerworks OpenAFS 1.0

On 2/5/2025 2:01 PM, Brad Topol wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> To support the continued development of OpenAFS, IBM approves the 
> license changes to the OpenAFS 1.0 repository as described in the 
> attached document.  Please contact me if you have any questions.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brad
>
> Brad Topol, Ph.D.
>
> IBM DE, Director of Open Technologies &
>
> Chief Developer Advocate IBM
> Internet: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Assistant: Jorge Brenes (404) 527-8260 x8555
>
>
For the benefit of the mail archive and those using screen readers I 
will post the text of the attached PDF below.

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IBM
1 New Orchard Road
Armonk, New York 10504-1722
United States

Date: January 21, 2025

Subject: Announcement of License Changes to IBM Developerworks OpenAFS 1.0

To support the continued development of OpenAFS, IBM approves the 
licensing changes to the OpenAFS 1.0 repository described below:

 1. All IBM copyrighted source code in the IBM OpenAFS 1.0 release is
    now available under the GPLv2 as an alternative to the IPL.
 2. All Sun Microsystems, Inc. copyrighted source code in the IBM
    OpenAFS 1.0 release is now available under the 3-part BSD Oracle
    America, Inc. Sun RPC license.

In addition, all prior and future contributions from IBM employees 
submitted to and accepted by the OpenAFS project will be licensed in 
accordance with current policies of the OpenAFS maintainers.

Signed off By: Brad Topol  <signature>

Signed off By: Anthony Todd DeSantis <signature>

Cc: OpenAFS Foundation <[email protected]>

Cc: OpenAFS Info Mailing List <[email protected]>

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This is followed by a list of 80 commit hashes representing IBM 
Contributions to the OpenAFS Project that had been submitted to OpenAFS 
prior to the end of 2023.

It is now up to the OpenAFS community to obtain permission from non-IBM 
contributors since OpenAFS 1.0 so that a dual licensed GPLv2 + IPL10 
OpenAFS release with current functionality can be distributed.

Thanks to Brad Topol and Todd DeSantis for making this happen.

Jeffrey Altman
AuriStor, Inc.