[darcs-devel] [issue954] darcs GPL exception (request 2)]

[Sean Robinson]

New submission from Sean Robinson <sean.robinson at sccmail.maricopa.edu>:

I have had difficulty getting emails through to 
E.Y.Kow at brighton.ac.uk, who is the assignee of Issue 176.  Please pass 
on my copyright transfer to any interested party.

   Thank you.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: darcs GPL exception (request 2)
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:08:48 -0700
From: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson at sccmail.maricopa.edu>
Organization: Scottsdale Community College
To: E.Y.Kow at brighton.ac.uk
References: <20080701132315.GA25122 at brighton.ac.uk>

   I apologize for not responding to the first mailing as I had
forgotten I had made such a small contribution and I didn't think the
message was meant for me.

   My preference is to assign my copyright on my darcs contribution to
David Roundy.  I am happy to leave my one line change in a config file
8-) in David's capable hands to do with as he sees fit.

E.Y.Kow at brighton.ac.uk wrote:
> Dear Sean Robinson,
> 
> I am writing to you because you have submitted some patches to darcs (see
> below).
> 
> We the darcs community would like to ask your permission to add a special
> exception relaxing our copy of the GPL:
> 
>    As a special exception, you have permission to link this program with
>    code which is licensed under the Common Public Licence, the Eclipse
>    Public Licence, or the OpenSSL License, as long as you follow the
>    requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the software in the
>    executable aside from the software which is licensed under the Common
>    Public License or the Eclipse Public License.
> 
> Would you let me know if
> 
> (1) this exception would be acceptable to you in principle
> 
>     The actual wording may change, but we hope you trust us to stay within
>     the copyleft spirit of the GPL, and stick to the core intent behind the
>     exception, i.e. permitting darcs to be distributed with certain free or
>     open-source software which is not GPL-compatible
> 
> (2) you would be willing to assign copyright for your changes to David Roundy
> 
>     It is not necessary that you do so, but this could expedite future
>     relicensing of darcs, which may or may not be a good thing in your eyes.
> 
> This may not be the first time you have heard from us about this issue.  Please
> accept our apologies.  We lost our replies the first time around, are now
> backing them up to the web to avoid such mishaps in the future.  Also, I
> recently sent out a mass BCC-mailing to all darcs developers, but I have not
> heard back from you.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric
> 
> Background
> ----------
> For more background,
> 
>  http://bugs.darcs.net/issue176
> 
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.devel/4367
>  [2006-05-21] May I please combine darcs with OpenSSH? (and Eclipse and SWT too?)
> 
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/6918/focus=6972
>  [2005-06-17] how to redistribute darcs+Eclipse (was: Darcs API?)
> 
> Wording changes?
> ----------------
> Please note that the actual wording of the exception may change.
> For example, we may
> 
>  - include a sentence reminding users that the exception is
>    optional, and that they may treat the license as vanilla
>    GPL if they want
>  - mention OpenSSL at the end of the license (where we only
>    talked about the Common Public License or the Eclipse Public License)
> 
> None of these modifications will change the spirit of the exception; they'll
> be mostly working out legal bugs.
> 
> Your patches
> ------------
> As a reminder, here are some of the patches which you have submitted:
> 
> 
> Tue Feb 24 04:07:43 GMT 2004  sean.robinson at sccmail.maricopa.edu
>   * add DarcsURL.lhs to GNUMakefile
>   add DarcsURL.lhs to CGI_FILES in GNUMakefile to fix link errors for darcs_cgi
>

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title: darcs GPL exception (request 2)]

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