New MML licensing policy
Adam Grabowski <[email protected]>
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Dear All, on behalf of the Licensing Committee of the Association of Mizar Users I would like to inform that all authors of new Mizar articles (including the latest official version of the Mizar system, MML version 4.160.1126) should sign new copyright transfer form for their articles. The old form is no longer valid and will be removed from the distribution soon. Regards, Adam Grabowski Library Committee of the Association of Mizar Users ----------------------------------------- New License and Copyright Agreement for MML The MML is starting with this release dual-licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or later and CC BY-SA v3 or later. Association of Mizar Users (SUM) holds the copyright to MML, which allowed this licensing change to be smooth. The licensing situation and policy is overseen by the SUM Licensing Committee named below, that should also be contacted in case license clarifications and protection are needed. To allow SUM to keep up with legal developments, and to maintain and protect MML as one compact library with clear licensing, SUM also continues to ask MML contributors for a copyright assignement. This is newly done using a Fiduciary License Agreement enclosed in the MML distribution (Mizar_FLA.pdf), modelled after the Free Software Foundation's template (http://fsfe.org/projects/ftf/fla.en.html). Note that the person assigning does not lose their rights to the code either, as the FLA gives back unlimited usage/single exploitation rights to the author. Please see the FAQ in the MML distribution or at (https://github.com/JUrban/MMLLicense/raw/master/FAQ) for further details. The SUM Licensing Committee: Josef Urban (Head) Jesse Alama Michael Kohlhase Lionel Mamane Adam Naumowicz Piotr Rudnicki