On Wednesday February 9 2011 10:14:51 Johan Hake wrote: > On Wednesday February 9 2011 10:10:04 Anders Logg wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:52:21AM -0800, Johan Hake wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > UCSD is not willing to sign the consent statement about GPL 3... > > > > > > From the answer I got: > > > LGPL incorporates GPL 3, and that is the problem. Earlier versions of > > > the GPL did not deal in patent rights, while Version 3 does. It would > > > commit a license to the entire UC patent estate, whether the > > > inventors were an informed participant or not. I would need to > > > consult further with UC General Counsel for a detailed answer, but > > > the spirit is that the license overreaches in its commitments to > > > patent rights beyond what the university is willing to do. > > > > That seems strange. So UCSD will want to retain the right to sue users > > of DOLFIN if you should happen to add code to DOLFIN that infringes on > > some patent held by UCSD? > > I have no clue what it means. But I will ask.
Here is a more elaborated explaination: The language is pretty clear in section 11 of the GPL V3 license - it commits all the rights of the Licensor (the Regents of the University of California) to a license. Our normal licensing practice is to license one technology at a time, and we do not license the other patents along with it. Our guiding principles for licensing are at this link <http://invent.ucsd.edu/faculty/policies/guiding-principles.shtml> Johan > > > Are there any others that have got a similare answer? > > > > No problems so far. Here's what we have so far: > > http://www.fenicsproject.org/pub/copyright/authors/ > > http://www.fenicsproject.org/pub/copyright/institutions/ > > I guess the Cambridge statement is not correct? > > Johan > > > -- > > Anders > > > > > Johan > > > > > > On Tuesday February 1 2011 08:44:01 you wrote: > > > > Dear contributors to the FEniCS Project, > > > > > > > > As discussed earlier on the mailing list, we are going to collect > > > > copyright consent forms for all material produced by the FEniCS > > > > Project. > > > > > > > > We do this for two reasons: > > > > > > > > 1. Relicensing of all software under the GNU LGPL v3 (or later). > > > > > > > > 2. As a protection against authors and/or employers that may want to > > > > revoke code contributed to the FEniCS Project in the future. > > > > > > > > What we need from you is to download the following two forms: > > > > Author consent form > > > > Institution consent form > > > > > > > > from http://www.fenicsproject.org/pub/copyright/forms/ > > > > > > > > Then sign and send the forms (by regular mail) to > > > > > > > > Johannes Ring > > > > Simula Research Laboratory > > > > PO Box 134 > > > > 1325 Lysaker > > > > Norway > > > > > > > > Johannes will administer the collection of the forms. Scanned copies > > > > of all signed forms will be made available on the FEniCS web site. > > > > > > > > Note that only one Institution consent form needs to be signed for > > > > each institution (if there are multiple authors employed by the same > > > > institution). > > > > > > > > We would like to have the forms as soon as possible, preferrably > > > > within 2 weeks (Feb 15) so that we have time to relicense all the > > > > software for the upcoming release of FEniCS 1.0 (in March). > > > > > > > > Direct any questions to me or to the mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
