Re: About license of sork modules

Hi,

With comments here and on debian-legal lists, I wll try to
convince sork authors to switch to another license.

The text could be :

############
You participate to Horde sork modules [1], thanks for your great
work. Are you agree to change your Horde sork modules to :

* Horde BSD-like license [2] : Y or N ?
* GPL license [3] : Y or N ?

[1] http://www.horde.org/sork/
[2] http://www.horde.org/licenses/bsdl.php
[3] http://www.horde.org/licenses/gpl.php
############


To begin this "mass mailing", I will dump authors on forwards
module :


@author in PHP file :

Eric Rostetter <[email protected]>

Ilya Krel <[email protected]> -> driver dev
Kendrick Vargas <[email protected]> -> driver dev
Marc Jauvin <[email protected]> -> driver dev
Mike Cochrane <[email protected]> -> driver dev

CREDITS file :

Mathieu Clabaut (no mail) -> original author
Tjeerd van der Zee (no mail) -> courier driver
Eric Keto (no mail) -> two img contributions

Translator in CREDITS file :

David Chang <[email protected]>
Pavel Chytil <[email protected]>
Espen Jürgensen <[email protected]>
Brian Truelsen <[email protected]>
Tero Matinlassi <[email protected]>
Daniel Huhardeaux <[email protected]>
Benoit St-André (no mail)
Pierre Lachance <[email protected]> 
Rafael Varela <[email protected]>
Guillermo Mendez <[email protected]>
Jens A Tkotz <[email protected]>
Jan Schneider <[email protected]>
Matin Tamás <[email protected]> 
Alessio Ciregia <[email protected]>
Per-Stian Vatne <[email protected]>
MetaNET Amirkabir <[email protected]>
Piotr Kuczynski <[email protected]>
João César Marigonda <[email protected]>
Marius Dragulescu <[email protected]>
Eugen Hoanca <[email protected]> 
Dmitriy MiksIr <[email protected]>
Manuel Perez Ayala <[email protected]>

from CVS logs :

Jason M. Felice" <[email protected]>
Benoit Branciard <[email protected]>
[email protected]
Ben Scott <[email protected]> -> fix typo
Mitja Kolsek <[email protected]>
Thierry Thomas <[email protected]>
[email protected]
David Chang <[email protected]>
Per-Stian Vatne <[email protected]>
Tero Matinlassi <[email protected]>
[email protected] -> bug in driver
Jan Kuipers <[email protected]>
Mathieu Arnold <[email protected]>
Andreas Dahlén <[email protected]>,
Leena Heino <[email protected]>
Tero Matinlassi <[email protected]>
Christopher Crowley [email protected]
Roel Gloudemans <[email protected]> -> update menu.inc



By reading comments on debian-legal lists, I think just core
and drivers authors shoud be asked. What do you think ?
Then no answer is needing for translators or "CVS log authors".

If you are on authors list, please say if you agree with
switching to GPL or BSD license (perhaps better if you use
PGP/GPG to sign your decision).


The major problem is when we have no answer from an author. We
could deliver an ultimatum (four weeks?). And after, if an author
doesn't agree, we remove his code of new (GPL|BSD) version. I
think that it is not a real problem because majority of code was
written by two or three persons. And probably there is no reason
for someone to be againt this switch...



On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:07:33AM +0200, Gregory Colpart wrote:
> Today all sork modules are with Apache License 1.1-like
> license [1]. This license seems not clearly free for Debian [2]
> and this could be a problem to have packages for this modules in
> Debian. Please read this thread [3] on debian-devel list to have
> explanations.
> 
> To sum up, I hope convincing authors to do one of following
> actions:
> 
> - switch license to Apache license 2.0 like [4],
> - switch licens to 3-clause BSD [5] or Horde BSD-like [6],
> - switch license to GPL [7].
> 
> Note that dual licensing could be a solution too.
> 
> 
> Perhaps, I should ask this in all (core|drivers) developers listed
> in CREDITS file (but copyright in LICENSE file is for "The Horde
> Project" and copyright in PHP files are for Eric Rostetter).
> 
> 
> [1] : http://www.horde.org/licenses/asl.php
> [2] : http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> [3] : http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/04/msg00136.html
> [4] : http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
> [5] : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/BSD_3Clause.html
> [6] : http://www.horde.org/licenses/bsdl.php
> [7] : http://www.horde.org/licenses/gpl.php 



Regards,
-- 
Gregory Colpart <[email protected]>  GnuPG:1024D/C1027A0E
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