[darcs-devel] Re: aclocal.m4

[Benedikt Schmidt]

David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:25:41PM -0300, Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> in the file aclocal.m4 there's no license indicated and no author. Who
>> is the author and what is the license? I'm asking because I'd like to
>> use a part of it in my project.
>
> I'm the author of most of it, and now that you mention it, I think I'd like
> to slap a BSD license on it.  Currently it's under the GPL, as is the rest
> of darcs, although it really ought to have a copyright header.
>
> The only other authors are Benedikt Schmidt and Will Glozer.  Benedikt and
> Will, would you mind putting this under a BSD license, or transferring
> copyright on this file to me?

I'm ok with transferring the copyright for my changes on aclocal.m4 to you.
Is verbal agreement ok for now or do you need a written transfer of
copyright? Here's how zwiki handles it: http://zwiki.org/LegalDepartment.

> I'm thinking of adding:
>
> # Copyright 2005 David Roundy{, Benedikt Schmidt, Will Glozer}. All rights
> # reserved.
>
> # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms of this file, with or
> # without modification, are permitted provided that redistributions of
> # source code must retain the above copyright notice.
>
> It's a bit simpler than a standard BSD, but is rather compatible.  Benedikt
> and Will can decide if they want to be on the copyright list.

That looks fine, leaving me off the list is ok.

Benedikt