Am Donnerstag, den 09.10.2014, 10:53 +0200 schrieb Filippo Rusconi: > Greetings, > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 01:51:31AM +0200, Michael Ole Olsen wrote: > >Contacting copyright holder and asking them to release under > >GPL or such is not a bad idea. > >even if they say no they might consider it in the future. > > Even better, in my experience, if the mail introducing the problem is > well conceived, the authors are generally favourable. Especially if > they did not license their software at all. Recently it took me one > single mail to go from a proprietary license state to a GPL3+ licensed > state. I usually offer two licenses as examples, even providing a > short explanation of the choice between "permissive" (BSD-3-clause) > and "restrictive" (GPL3). All of this also applies to documentation > (and is part of my experience). Usually, making authors switch from > the almost automatic "All rights reserved" motto to GPL (or similar) > is not unfeasible.
Do we have a wiki page or similar containing this information? It would be nice to have a page for guiding people (that are unaware, but not against free software) to make good license choices. -- Benjamin Drung System Developer ProfitBricks GmbH - The IaaS-Company Greifswalder Str. 207 D - 10405 Berlin Mail: benjamin.dr...@profitbricks.com Fax: +49 30 577 008 598 URL: http://www.profitbricks.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506 B. Geschäftsführer: Andreas Gauger, Achim Weiss. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1412849922.2913.4.ca...@konstrukt.pb.local