On Jan 26, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> Any more progress on this? I'm upgrading this to "urgent" because  
> of the legal
> nature of the issue. You can add my name to the list of  
> contributors who approve
> the exception.

I haven't done anything on it since my last update to the ticket.

At this point there's nothing that makes me more likely to succeed at  
this task than anyone else.  However, I've earlier offered to do it,  
and I will do it, but I request that someone else do the job of  
"deciding which authors have contributed a significant enough  
contribution that their approval is required to amend the licence".   
This is a fuzzy, legal, human judgment, not a precise mathematical  
judgment.  I am ill-equipped to do this step, as I know practically  
nothing about the history of the darcs source code.

> The AUTHORS file lists about 120 contributors at this point...

I guess this is an upper bound on the number of people whose approval  
we require!

Regards,

Zooko