I have had difficulty getting emails through to
E.Y.Kow@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@sccmail.maricopa.edu>
Organization: Scottsdale Community College
To: E.Y.Kow@brighton.ac.uk
References: <20080701132315.GA25122@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@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@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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