[darcs-users] may we put your darcs test cases under the MIT license?

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Sat May 16 19:56:30 UTC 2009


I'm fine with the test cases I've written for darcs being relicensed,
but not the source code.

David

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
> Dear David, Mark, Thorkil and Dmitry:
>
> We would like to relicense the test cases for darcs under something
> more permissive, namely, the MIT license.  Do you accept this?
>
> Also: while I'm at it, we aim to spin off parts of the darcs code under
> general libraries.  In this case, it would be most helpful if we could
> release that source code under a BSD license.  Would it be acceptable to
> you that any darcs source code you have contributed accordingly?
>
> Again, Thanks!
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:53:51 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
>> >> Fri May 15 16:37:29 EST 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
>> >>   * Relicense licensed tests (GPL2+ to MIT).
>> >
>> > Do we have to get explicit permission from David, Mark, Thorkil and
>> > Dmitry for this
>>
>> To be honest, I don't know.  Stephen Turnbull made a reasaonable case
>> for "brute force" relicensing of such stuff the last time it came up in
>> this forum.
>
> Trent: Do you have a link?
>
>> > or is that already done?
>
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> Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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