Re: Prelim LG-VX5300 patches

Bart Massey wrote:
> As I said in my previous email, you have my
> complete approval to put any BitPim-related code I've ever
> written into the distribution; please do with this code as
> you will, and let me know if you need some more formal
> document.

The easiest thing to do is supply all your files as a zip/tar.gz and 
copy the header from one of the existing files.  That header will 
include your copyright as well as placing the code under the GPL(*).

Alternatively you'll have to assign the copyright to us, but that is 
more work.  Note your statement above is more restrictive than the GPL 
since it restricts the code to being placed into BitPim only. 
(Obviously you didn't intend this, but doing what it says in the first 
paragraph makes everything clear and legal).

(*) We use a very slightly modified GPL for BitPim.  The GPL allows 
linking to standard system libraries that aren't "free".  At one point 
we tried to use SSL for BitFling, which requires linking to the non-free 
OpenSSL libraries.  The OpenSSL libraries are shipped with the OS on 
Linux and Mac and hence there is no problem there.  However OpenSSL is 
not a standard Windows library.  Consequently the BitPim GPL has a 
relaxation allowing linking to OpenSSL.  SSH is now used (paramiko) but 
should we ever need OpenSSL again, that provision is nice.  In any case 
removing the provision would require the copyright holder of every 
single line of code to agree which is unlikely just from a logistics 
point of view.

Roger

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