Important: ILISP License Change Questionnaire
[email protected] Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:36:14 -0700
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Dear Potential ILISP Contributor, You are receiving this message because of the possibility that you have contributed to the ILISP project. If you have not contributed to the ILISP project, please disregard this message. If you have contributed to ILISP project, please read on. Some ILISP developers have expressed a desire for the ILISP source code to be licensed more liberally. As it stands, ILISP's license is non-free by the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)item 1 (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). This limits the areas where ILISP can be used. ILISP's current license is reproduced in Appendix 1 in this message. This posting is a "best faith attempt" to determine if there are any ILISP contributors who object to a more free license for ILISP. As such, this message is being sent via e-mail to last known e-mail address of ILISP contributors, ILISP mail lists, and the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup. The distribution list is in Appendix 4. The first goal will be to change ILISP's license to the GNU General Public License (Appendix 2). If there are no objections to that, then another goal will be to have copyrights in the ILISP project be reassigned to the Free Software Federation (Appendix 3). At this point, ILISP can then be a standard part of GNU Emacs. However, if there are objections to these changes, then a secondary goal will be to remove a restrictive clause that is non-DFSG compliant (see question 4). If there are no objections sent via e-mail to the below address by December 20, 2002, then the ILISP license will be changed. If objections to a license change exists, then the extent of the copyrighted material owned by such people with objections will be determined. Such material may be rewritten by an entity willing to have their contribution more liberally licensed. The questions follow. Even you if do not object to a change of ILISP's license, please respond to this posting so that your lack of objection can be documented. Please respond via to e-mail to the e-mail address [email protected] Question 1: - HAVE YOU AUTHORED ANY MATERIAL IN THE ILISP SOURCE CODE OR DOCUMENTATION? Question 2: - DO YOU OBJECT TO ILISP's LICENSE BEING CHANGED TO THE GNU GENERAL - PUBLIC LICENSE (APPENDIX 2). Question 3: - DO YOU OBJECT TO HAVING ANY COPYRIGHTS THAT YOU OWN IN THE ILISP - PROJECT BEING REASSIGNED TO THE FREE SOFTWARE FEDERATION? - (BENEFITS OF REASSIGNMENT CAN BE FOUND FOUND AT THE URL - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html AND ARE REPRODUCED IN - APPENDIX 3) Question 4: - DO YOU OBJECT TO ILISP's LICENSE BEING MODIFIED TO REMOVE THE FOLLOWING - CLAUSE? o No fees or compensation are charged for use, copies, or access to this software. You may charge a nominal distribution fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, but you may not charge for the program itself. Question 5: - IF YOUR ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 2 AND 4 ARE "YES", PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH - AREAS OF THE ILISP PROJECT HAS MATERIAL FOR WHICH YOU OWN A - COPYRIGHT. (THIS SHOULD INCLUDE FILE NAMES, FUNCTION NAMES, AND - POSSIBLY GENERAL DESIGN COPYRIGHTS THAT YOU MAY OWN.) Question 6: - WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME AND BEST E-MAIL ADDRESS TO CONTACT YOU IF THERE ARE FURTHER - ISSUES WITH ILISP'S LICENSE. THIS MAY INCLUDE SENDING YOU FORMS FOR - REASSIGNING YOUR COPYRIGHTS TO THE FREE SOFTWARE FEDERATION. Thank you for your consideration of this issue, -- Kevin Rosenberg ILISP Developer [email protected] ************************************************************************ APPENDIX 1 CURRENT ILISP LICENSE ************************************************************************ COPYING -- TERMS AND LICENSING AGREEMENT FOR ILISP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is part of ILISP. Version: 5.12.0 Date: 2002-05-28 Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Chris McConnell 1993, 1994 Ivan Vasquez 1994, 1995, 1996 Marco Antoniotti and Rick Busdiecker 1996-2000 Marco Antoniotti and Rick Campbell 2001 Paolo Amoroso, Marco Antoniotti, Martin Atzmueller, Craig Brozefsky, William Deakin, Matthias Koeppe Other authors' names for which this Copyright notice also holds may appear later in this file, in the ACKNOWLEGMENTS file and in individual files (in which case the content of the file is to be intended to be copyrighted by that author). Please visit the ILISP Project at Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ilisp) for news and support. ILISP mailing lists are also hosted at Sourceforge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ILISP if freely redistributable. Eventually it may become part of GNU Emacs and it will in that case comply with the GPL. For the time being we adopt the following licensing agreement. 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If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License. ************************************************************************ APPENDIX 3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html ************************************************************************ Why the FSF gets copyright assignments from contributors by Professor Eben Moglen, Columbia University Law School Under US copyright law, which is the law under which most free software programs have historically been first published, there are very substantial procedural advantages to registration of copyright. And despite the broad right of distribution conveyed by the GPL, enforcement of copyright is generally not possible for distributors: only the copyright holder or someone having assignment of the copyright can enforce the license. If there are multiple authors of a copyrighted work, successful enforcement depends on having the cooperation of all authors. 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That way we can be sure that all the code in FSF projects is free code, whose freedom we can most effectively protect, and therefore on which other developers can completely rely. ************************************************************************ APPENDIX 4 DISTRIBUTION LIST ************************************************************************ Multi-person Postings ------------------ comp.lang.lisp (USENET group) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Last Recorded E-Mail Address in ILISP files ------------------------------------------- Alain Picard <[email protected]> Alexey Dejneka <[email protected]> Bakel <[email protected]> Bill Clementson <[email protected]> Bob Rogers <[email protected]> Chris McConnell <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Christof Ullwer <[email protected]> Christopher Hoover <[email protected]> Colin Walters <[email protected]> Craig Brozefsky <[email protected]> Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> Dave Fox <[email protected]> David Gadbois <[email protected]> Edmund Weitz <[email protected]> Gary Byers <[email protected]> Hannu Koivisto <[email protected]> Ivan Vazquez <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Jason Trenouth <[email protected]> Jeffrey Mark Siskind <[email protected]> Karl Fogel <[email protected]> Kevin Rosenberg <[email protected]> Kimball Collins <[email protected]> Koivisto <[email protected]>. 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Goldman <[email protected]> Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Tim Moore <[email protected]> Todd Kaufmann <[email protected]> William Deakin <[email protected]> William Newman <[email protected]> Utz-Uwe Haus <[email protected]> People with e-mail addresses found by Google Search terms: Person's name, Lisp, emacs Latest e-mail addresses choosen -------------------------------------------- Ben Hyde <[email protected]> Ben Wing <[email protected]> Bjorn Victor <[email protected]> Brian Dennis <[email protected]> Christian Lynbech <[email protected]> Chuck Irvine <[email protected]>> Dan Pierson <[email protected]> David Bakhash <[email protected]> David Braunegg <[email protected]> David Duff <[email protected]> Erik Naggum <[email protected]> Frank Ritter <[email protected]> Fred White <[email protected]> Guido Bosch <[email protected]> Hans Chalupsky <[email protected]> Jamie Zawinski <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Jim Healy <[email protected]> Larry Stead <[email protected]> Michael Ernst <[email protected]> Michael Kashket <[email protected]> Neil Smithline <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Ole Rohne <[email protected]>> Paul Fuqua <[email protected]> Richard Campbell <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Rick Busdiecker <[email protected]> Tom Emerson <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Yusuf Pisan <[email protected]> <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html