Op Wed, 3 Sep 2014 18:43:14 +0530 schreef arnuld uttre <arnuld.miz...@gmail.com>:
> I sent email to all the developers and the email to primary developer > and copyright owner has bounced back. > > I did get reply from a developer but he has mentioned he is not the > copyright owner and he has not heard from the copyright owner from > lasst few years but he is sure he would not object to changing license > to newer version. Have asked him if he can put the newer license along > with source code or do a VCS commit and announce the change in > license. It rarely (if ever) happens that someone who released their code under the Artistic License 1.0 does not agree to relicense it under AL 2.0. But only the copyright holder(s) can legally change the license (see also [1]). It's likely that the current maintainer holds some of the copyright, so it's great that we already have his permission. But we need the permission of every copyright holder to be able to go through with it. Listen to Gervase Markham's "Licensing In The Trenches" talk [2] (00:10 - 00:16) for a good story about relicensing. The OpenGL license issue of some years back [3] (in which gNewSense played a part) also illustrates that such a process is not always straightforward even if all parties agree on the basic principles. Is there any other way that you might get a hold of the original copyright holder? [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs [2] http://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x3E_Licensing-Trenches.ogg (67 MiB) [3] http://archive09.linux.com/feature/148339 _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev