On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 09:02:39AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2014-09-18 14:13+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > > >I've completely reformatted the debian copyright file (using the new > >machine readable format) and done some grepping for rogue files. I've > >attached a copy and I think this identified all the non-LGPL files ( > >parts of files) apart from the additional libraries shipped in lib > >(which I also need to deal with and have an outstanding bug report). > > > >This list might be useful more generally. It would be great if we > >could tidy up the odd license files for consistency. In particular > >whether examples are GPL or LGPL is a bit random. > > Because PLplot has always been advertised as LGPL with a few minor > exceptions, I suspect a large fraction of the GPL licensing was not > deliberate, but simply an oversight. Getting all those instances > changed to LGPL would be an excellent goal just to improve our > licensing consistency, but it does require contacting all the > copyright holders and getting their permission for the change. > > To get that process started, would all active developers here agree to > changing the licensing to LGPL2+, i.e., the exactly licensing > conditions that appear in COPYING.LIB for all PLplot files where they > hold copyright and which are currently licensed under some form of > LGPL that is not LGPL2+ or licensed under some form of GPL? > > I certainly give my own permission for such licensing changes > (assuming all other copyright holders for the files in question > agree), and my hope (to improve our licensing consistency) is that all > other core developers here will explicitly state the same in a reply > to this e-mail.
You have my permission too. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
