Re: [rdesktop-devel] Alternative license?

Hi Brad,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Brad Hards <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:21:25 pm Linuxembarcado wrote:
> > Em 10-03-2011 04:50, Peter Åstrand escreveu:
> > > Wrong. FreeRDP is also GPL licensed, at least according to
> > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/freerdp/. It must be, since it's a
> fork
> > > of rdesktop.
> >
> > Funny. I've been following the FreeRDP maling list for a while and one
> > of the discussions in the last few weeks was exactly the change to
> > Apache. As I am not contributing to the project directly, I haven't
> > folowed in great detail so I am probably mistaken, sorry.
> [Adding freerdp-devel, hope that doesn't break too badly]
>
> I see a thread that starts off with one of the FreeRDP license developers
> announcing a relicense the code.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=AANLkTinOeC2iVqNf0Kxq-
> nsm6sPdQbNdYoeWGBjVzfx1%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=freerdp-devel
>
> I'm not sure how that can be done though, since it appears to still contain
> code from rdesktop. Is the plan to rewrite the code with GPL headers before
> version 0.9?
>
> Does this definitely make it not-derivative? My read of the GPL is that
> you'd
> need approval from anyone with a non-trivial content that might still be
> included in freerdp.


A lot of code in FreeRDP has been rewritten, but yes, there are some parts
of code left from rdesktop. I have asked all the FreeRDP contributors +
rdesktop contributors that had their code in FreeRDP. The largest portions
of code carried from rdesktop were from Matthew Chapman. It was hard to get
in touch with him, but I managed to and he agreed to relicense his code.
Other people that have code licensed in rdesktop that I got their agreement
were Jay and Jeroen. Obviously, I had to get the agreement from all the
FreeRDP contributors. If you feel you've been forgotten, please tell us so,
we haven't released 0.9 yet.

>


> Brad
>
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