Relicensing source code for inclusion in Python
Hello,
In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85 implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to validate the relicensing? If yes, what?
Thank you
Antoine.
On 04.04.2013 18:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Hello,
In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85 implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to validate the relicensing? If yes, what?
They need to sign a contributor agreement and add the corrsponding note to the source code file(s). That's all that's needed.
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On 4/4/2013 12:53 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
On 04.04.2013 18:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Hello,
In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85 implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to validate the relicensing? If yes, what? They need to sign a contributor agreement and add the corrsponding note to the source code file(s). That's all that's needed.
I believe license questions can also be directed to the new legal-sig list http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-legal-sig
Le jeudi 04 avril 2013 à 15:39 -0400, Terry Reedy a écrit :
On 4/4/2013 12:53 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
On 04.04.2013 18:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Hello,
In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85 implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to validate the relicensing? If yes, what? They need to sign a contributor agreement and add the corrsponding note to the source code file(s). That's all that's needed.
I believe license questions can also be directed to the new legal-sig list http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-legal-sig
Thanks, I had forgotten about that.
Regards
Antoine.
On Apr 04, 2013, at 06:30 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85 implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to validate the relicensing? If yes, what?
That's a good question. In optimism for a positive pronouncement, I'm preparing a 4.0 version of flufl.enum, which is currently LGPLv3+. I intend to do the next release under an ASLv2.0 license in order to be compatible with the contributor agreement. It's too much of a PITA for me to do dual licenses and since ASLv2.0 is GPL-compatible, that seems fine enough for me.
Is that enough for contribution to Python?
-Barry
On 4 Apr 2013, at 18:03, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Apr 04, 2013, at 06:30 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85 implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to validate the relicensing? If yes, what?
That's a good question. In optimism for a positive pronouncement, I'm preparing a 4.0 version of flufl.enum, which is currently LGPLv3+. I intend to do the next release under an ASLv2.0 license in order to be compatible with the contributor agreement. It's too much of a PITA for me to do dual licenses and since ASLv2.0 is GPL-compatible, that seems fine enough for me.
Is that enough for contribution to Python?
If the copyright is owned by you then you can donate the code to Python under the Apache license (as per the contributor agreement) *and* release it separately under *whatever* license you want. No need to change the license.
Michael
-Barry
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On Apr 04, 2013, at 06:08 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
If the copyright is owned by you then you can donate the code to Python under the Apache license (as per the contributor agreement) *and* release it separately under *whatever* license you want. No need to change the license.
Cool. Thanks. -Barry
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On 04/04/13 18:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
They could sign the contributor agreement and then propose a patch for inclusion in Python.
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