Re: Black Duck IP Assessment of FreeRDP (fwd)

Hi Peter,

Both of us have remained quiet while others keep fighting, but I don't think
it is necessary to continue this way.

Here's what I propose:

Since none of us are real lawyers, we can go on like this forever. I will
work on getting the necessary funding for hiring a real lawyer, who will
come in and provide legal advice on the matter.

Would that be considered a way to resolve the conflict and satisfy both
ends?

I appreciate your concerns for doing things right, but we need to get over
this at some point and move on. A lot of energy has already been put onto
this.

Best regards,
- Marc-Andre

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Peter Åstrand <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>  If I wrote a
>> program or a module and released it under GPL and I am the copyright
>> holder, I have the right to relicense it to anything I want. GPL code
>>
>
> Yes, this is correct.
>
>
>
>  I think you should look at the FreeRDP wiki again and check out who has
>> agreed to relicense his code to Apache v2 and look at the report again.
>>
>
> I have looked at the Wiki. If you are referring to
> http://www.freerdp.com/wiki/**doku.php?id=license_change<http://www.freerdp.com/wiki/doku.php?id=license_change>,
> it only contains a list of people who has agreed to the change. There are
> many people missing on that list. If I take the rdesktop AUTHORS list and
> remove the persons on your Wiki I get:
>
> Alexi Volkov <[email protected]>
> Erik Forsberg <[email protected]>
> GuoJunBo <[email protected]>
> Henrik Andersson <[email protected]> for Cendio AB
> Hugo Trippaers <[email protected]>
> Jeremy Meng <[email protected]>
> Matrox Graphics Inc.
> Michael Gernoth <[email protected]>
> Michal Mihalik <[email protected]>
> Peter Astrand <[email protected]> for Cendio AB
> Peter Kallden <[email protected]>
> Pierre Ossman <[email protected]> for Cendio AB
>
> This list can probably be trimmed down, but as I have mentioned before,
> according to the statistics, Erik Forsberg, Pierre Ossman and me have done
> substantial work on rdesktop (many commits). Neither of us have agreed to
> the change. Even if you are able to assert that you have rewritten every
> line of code that we have implemented, it would still be difficult to claim
> that FreeRDP is not derived from our copyrighted rdesktop code. Our work
> started 2002, so work done by other developers (such as Matt, which has
> agreed to the change) since then may also be derived from our work.
>
> Think about the numbers again. We have done 50% of the commits in the
> rdesktop project, on which FreeRDP is based. It's quite clear to me that
> FreeRDP is derived from our work to some extent, no matter how much you are
> tweaking, reorganizing, or rewriting the code.
>
>
> Don't get us wrong, we are not opposed to the FreeRDP project. However, you
> cannot force a license change when are not agreeing to it. You will need to
> use GPLv2 or later.
>
>
> Regards, ---
>
> Peter Åstrand           ThinLinc Chief Developer
> Cendio AB               http://www.cendio.com
> Wallenbergs gata 4
> 583 30 Linköping        Phone: +46-13-21 46 00
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