Re: FVWM: Code Licence

Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> A while ago, I was trying to contact Robert Nation to determine whether he
> would be willing to relicence his files to the GPL.  Unfortunately, I have
> been unsuccessful in my attempts in finding an email address for him.
>
> I appreciate this was done in order to be more compliant with Github's T&Cs,
> however, I believe this is perhaps a worthwhile exercise, regardless of that
> point.
>
> I believe we should take an approach similar to that of OpenSSL[0] wherein
> they made every effort to contact past authors[1].  It seems that even if did
> not get a response, the licence change still went ahead.
>
> IANAL, so I cannot comment on this in that regard.  However, it should be
> noted that this approach did have lawyers behind it to begin with.
>
> Any thoughts?

Seems like a reasonable approach to me.
Rob seems to have abandoned Fvwm or passed on.

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Dan Espen