I'm fine with MIT as well.
Jindrich
On 11/9/18 4:35 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
>
> Because I enjoy resolving 20 year old licensing issues... :)
>
> The existing license on find-lang.sh reads:
>
> |#findlang is copyright (c) 1998 by W. L. Estes <wles...@uncg.edu>
> #Redistribution and use of this software are hereby permitted for any
> #purpose as long as this notice and the above copyright notice remain
> #in tact and are included with any redistribution of this file or any
> #work based on this file. |
>
> This license, like many early FOSS licenses, is ambiguous about its
> support for modification. It also does not carry any sort of warranty
> disclaimer. I have reached out to Mr. Estes, who has given permission
> via email for this work to be relicensed under a modern permissive
> license, specifically, MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). I
> can provide copies of this correspondence upon request. He has
> clarified that permitting modification of this file was his original
> intent, however, it is still worth changing this license to prevent
> others from copying it elsewhere.
>
> In the twenty years or so that this code has been in RPM, the
> following contributors seem to have made copyrightable contributions
> to it:
>
> @proyvind <https://github.com/proyvind> @pmatilai
> <https://github.com/pmatilai> @scop <https://github.com/scop> @ffesti
> <https://github.com/ffesti> @jnovy <https://github.com/jnovy> @arekm
> <https://github.com/arekm>
>
> If each of them are okay with relicensing this work under MIT, I would
> recommend that this happen. I can make a PR if needed.
>
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