Hello Tanguy,
thanks for your response, you wrote:
I would expect, and encourage, people to fork the work and maintain it
with the same license for all parties, without any such contributor
agreement.
I would normally agree with such stance.
But why would one have the goal to keep Nuitka un
Kay Hayen, 2012-01-06 11:27+0100:
>> I would expect, and encourage, people to fork the work and maintain it
>> with the same license for all parties, without any such contributor
>> agreement.
>
> I would normally agree with such stance.
>
> But why would one have the goal to keep Nuitka under GP
Am 06.01.2012 05:14, schrieb Ben Finney:
Kay Hayen writes:
I want everybody to receive under "GPLv3" and then to contribute back by
default under "GPLv3 and Apache license 2.0", or optionally under "GPLv3"
only.
At whose option?
The contributor option of course. If the contributor doesn't
Kay Hayen writes:
> I want everybody to receive under "GPLv3" and then to contribute back by
> default under "GPLv3 and Apache license 2.0", or optionally under "GPLv3"
> only.
At whose option?
Since you're asking for opinions: I would reject the first option. If
you want to receive people's co
Hello Ben,
thanks for your reply, you wrote:
By “ASF 2.0” I assume you mean “the Apache license version 2.0”. I will
use “Apache 2.0” which I gather is the more widely used name for that
license.
I will do so too then.
Kay Hayen writes:
It is supposed to work like this: Everybody receiv
By “ASF 2.0” I assume you mean “the Apache license version 2.0”. I will
use “Apache 2.0” which I gather is the more widely used name for that
license.
Kay Hayen writes:
> It is supposed to work like this: Everybody receives Nuitka from me
> under GPLv3. And "ASF2.0" for nothing. Then everything
Hello Tanguy,
thanks for breaking it down:
# If you (not Kay Hayen) submit patches
So far, this is a contributor agreement.
# or make the software
# available to licensors of this software in either form,
But here you are starting to add on the license, taking high risks
of m
Hello Ben,
you wrote:
And it should address what MJ said, because that way, new code is
under "ASF2.0" for everybody pretty automatic.
Is that your intent? If so, I don't know why the license is not ASF 2.0
from the start.
I gave my motivation in the original email. In short I don't want t
Kay Hayen writes:
> And it should address what MJ said, because that way, new code is
> under "ASF2.0" for everybody pretty automatic.
Is that your intent? If so, I don't know why the license is not ASF 2.0
from the start.
On the other hand, if you want everyone to receive the work under GPL
3.
Kay Hayen, 2012-01-05 19:53+0100:
> I would make it say something like this:
>
> # If you (not Kay Hayen) submit patches
So far, this is a contributor agreement.
> # or make the software
> # available to licensors of this software in either form,
But here you are starting to add on
Am 05.01.2012 19:53, schrieb Kay Hayen:
And it should address what MJ said, because that way, new code is under
"ASF2.0" for everybody pretty automatic. That way, my only "unfairness"
is to not put my work under GPLv3, a right that I offer everybody else
too though.
Sorry for this typo: I mean
Hello Francesco,
[...]
Would it be possible to have, instead, a contributor agreement that
allows contributors to retain copyright while at the same time
granting you a non-transferable, non-revokable, exclusive right to
relicense their contribution under the ASF2.0 license at a time of
your c
Hello Tanguy,
Am 05.01.2012 18:08, schrieb Tanguy Ortolo:
Christofer C. Bell, 2012-01-05 17:18+0100:
Would it be possible to have, instead, a contributor agreement that
allows contributors to retain copyright while at the same time
granting you a non-transferable, non-revokable, exclusive righ
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:18:27 -0600 Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Kay Hayen wrote:
[...]
> > The interesting part is contribution copyright assignment. I actually do
> > _not_ want Nuitka to have to stay GPLv3 when it's "ready". Then I
> > _definitely_ want it to have
Christofer C. Bell, 2012-01-05 17:18+0100:
> Would it be possible to have, instead, a contributor agreement that
> allows contributors to retain copyright while at the same time
> granting you a non-transferable, non-revokable, exclusive right to
> relicense their contribution under the ASF2.0 lice
Hello Christofer,
The interesting part is contribution copyright assignment. I actually do
_not_ want Nuitka to have to stay GPLv3 when it's "ready". Then I
_definitely_ want it to have another license, with "ASF2.0" being the
current front runner.
I'm not a fan of copyright assignment, and w
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Kay Hayen wrote:
>
> Hello Tanguy,
>
>
>> Although you are free to sell this program according to the terms of
>> the GPLv3, I would not like that, and this is why I chose this
>> license, that should make most attempts of doing so non-viable.
>> [or
Kay Hayen, 2012-01-05 16:37+0100:
> The interesting part is contribution copyright assignment. I actually do
> _not_ want Nuitka to have to stay GPLv3 when it's "ready". Then I
> _definitely_ want it to have another license, with "ASF2.0" being the
> current front runner.
>
> If i put it as "AS
Hello Tanguy,
Although you are free to sell this program according to the terms of
the GPLv3, I would not like that, and this is why I chose this
license, that should make most attempts of doing so non-viable.
[or whatever similar text you may want to write]
Since such a st
Kay Hayen, 2012-01-05 14:45+0100:
> I didn't forbid "commercial" use at all. What made you think that I do?
>
> When explaining my intent, I just made it clear, that I do not - at this
> time - want a heavy investment by a competitor with the goal to sell
> Closed Source licenses. In principle I
Hello Ben,
you wrote:
Am 05.01.2012 13:39, schrieb Ben Finney:
Kay Hayen writes:
First my intent: I believe intent matters in copyright. Please do not
discuss if my intent is good or bad, or if my approach will be
effective or not for a project.
Please don't attempt to set rules forbiddin
Kay Hayen writes:
> First my intent: I believe intent matters in copyright. Please do not
> discuss if my intent is good or bad, or if my approach will be
> effective or not for a project.
Please don't attempt to set rules forbidding discussion of your intent
and approach. If it's relevant to th
Hello MJ,
Am 05.01.2012 12:41, schrieb MJ Ray:
// This code is in part copyright Kay Hayen, license GPLv3. This has the
consequence that
// your must either obtain a commercial license or also publish your
original source code
// under the same license unless you don't distribute this source o
Kay Hayen
> // This code is in part copyright Kay Hayen, license GPLv3. This has the
> consequence that
> // your must either obtain a commercial license or also publish your
> original source code
> // under the same license unless you don't distribute this source or its
> binary.
I do not ag
Hello everybody,
I am a happy Debian user ever since Potato, and I am the author and
therefore potentially upstream of Nuitka, a Python compiler project of
mine. I am also aiming to become the Debian Maintainer for it.
I have created a package for Nuitka and it has technically evolved to
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