Re: [E-devel] Skeleton licensing
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Tom Hacohen t...@osg.samsung.com wrote: On 02/06/15 00:22, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:39:16 +0100 Tom Hacohen t...@osg.samsung.com said: On 01/06/15 14:33, Andrew Williams wrote: Hi guys, In EDI I have packaged a clone of the skeleton project (so you don't have to be online to use the feature) and made a few small improvements. Today it was pointed out to me that it is GPLv2/3 licensed which is not very helpful to people wanting to use it. https://git.enlightenment.org/tools/skeleton.git My intent is to move this to BSD - does anyone have objections to this plan? Specifically I need a response from Cedric, Jérémy and Tom who have contributed to this project over the last 18 months. I have already changed elm_code to LGPL expecting it's inclusion into EFL or Elementary and I will look at the license of EDI itself later. I'm in favour of moving it to BSD. As I said on IRC, it's crazy it was created as GPL in the first place. i might even argue that skeletons should be public domain maybe? basically provide zero worries on license of an app you start making with edi - license choice is yours totally. that'd be the right way at least for core/common templates. perhaps very large/complex ones might come with more involved licenses... but the basic stuff... public domain. The problem with public domain is that it doesn't hold in all jurisdictions. This can be avoided by using CC-0 which basically is a workaround for this issue and should be safe to use. Anyhow, I renounce any copyright claims over the code in that repo. I assign all rights to the public domain, and in jurisdictions who don't allow that, I freely allow anyone to use it under the terms of the BSD license. -- Tom. -- ___ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- ___ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
Re: [E-devel] Skeleton licensing
On 02/06/15 00:22, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:39:16 +0100 Tom Hacohen t...@osg.samsung.com said: On 01/06/15 14:33, Andrew Williams wrote: Hi guys, In EDI I have packaged a clone of the skeleton project (so you don't have to be online to use the feature) and made a few small improvements. Today it was pointed out to me that it is GPLv2/3 licensed which is not very helpful to people wanting to use it. https://git.enlightenment.org/tools/skeleton.git My intent is to move this to BSD - does anyone have objections to this plan? Specifically I need a response from Cedric, Jérémy and Tom who have contributed to this project over the last 18 months. I have already changed elm_code to LGPL expecting it's inclusion into EFL or Elementary and I will look at the license of EDI itself later. I'm in favour of moving it to BSD. As I said on IRC, it's crazy it was created as GPL in the first place. i might even argue that skeletons should be public domain maybe? basically provide zero worries on license of an app you start making with edi - license choice is yours totally. that'd be the right way at least for core/common templates. perhaps very large/complex ones might come with more involved licenses... but the basic stuff... public domain. The problem with public domain is that it doesn't hold in all jurisdictions. Anyhow, I renounce any copyright claims over the code in that repo. I assign all rights to the public domain, and in jurisdictions who don't allow that, I freely allow anyone to use it under the terms of the BSD license. -- Tom. -- ___ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
Re: [E-devel] Skeleton licensing
On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:08:26 +0100 Tom Hacohen t...@osg.samsung.com wrote: On 02/06/15 00:22, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:39:16 +0100 Tom Hacohen t...@osg.samsung.com said: On 01/06/15 14:33, Andrew Williams wrote: Hi guys, In EDI I have packaged a clone of the skeleton project (so you don't have to be online to use the feature) and made a few small improvements. Today it was pointed out to me that it is GPLv2/3 licensed which is not very helpful to people wanting to use it. https://git.enlightenment.org/tools/skeleton.git My intent is to move this to BSD - does anyone have objections to this plan? Specifically I need a response from Cedric, Jérémy and Tom who have contributed to this project over the last 18 months. I have already changed elm_code to LGPL expecting it's inclusion into EFL or Elementary and I will look at the license of EDI itself later. I'm in favour of moving it to BSD. As I said on IRC, it's crazy it was created as GPL in the first place. i might even argue that skeletons should be public domain maybe? basically provide zero worries on license of an app you start making with edi - license choice is yours totally. that'd be the right way at least for core/common templates. perhaps very large/complex ones might come with more involved licenses... but the basic stuff... public domain. The problem with public domain is that it doesn't hold in all jurisdictions. Anyhow, I renounce any copyright claims over the code in that repo. I assign all rights to the public domain, and in jurisdictions who don't allow that, I freely allow anyone to use it under the terms of the BSD license. Rob Landley is using a modified BSD license that is essentially as close as you can get to public domain and still have a license. At least that was his goal. http://landley.net/code/toybox/license.html -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- ___ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
[E-devel] Skeleton licensing
Hi guys, In EDI I have packaged a clone of the skeleton project (so you don't have to be online to use the feature) and made a few small improvements. Today it was pointed out to me that it is GPLv2/3 licensed which is not very helpful to people wanting to use it. https://git.enlightenment.org/tools/skeleton.git My intent is to move this to BSD - does anyone have objections to this plan? Specifically I need a response from Cedric, Jérémy and Tom who have contributed to this project over the last 18 months. I have already changed elm_code to LGPL expecting it's inclusion into EFL or Elementary and I will look at the license of EDI itself later. Many thanks, Andrew -- ___ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
Re: [E-devel] Skeleton licensing
On 01/06/15 14:33, Andrew Williams wrote: Hi guys, In EDI I have packaged a clone of the skeleton project (so you don't have to be online to use the feature) and made a few small improvements. Today it was pointed out to me that it is GPLv2/3 licensed which is not very helpful to people wanting to use it. https://git.enlightenment.org/tools/skeleton.git My intent is to move this to BSD - does anyone have objections to this plan? Specifically I need a response from Cedric, Jérémy and Tom who have contributed to this project over the last 18 months. I have already changed elm_code to LGPL expecting it's inclusion into EFL or Elementary and I will look at the license of EDI itself later. I'm in favour of moving it to BSD. As I said on IRC, it's crazy it was created as GPL in the first place. -- Tom. -- ___ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
Re: [E-devel] Skeleton licensing
On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:39:16 +0100 Tom Hacohen t...@osg.samsung.com said: On 01/06/15 14:33, Andrew Williams wrote: Hi guys, In EDI I have packaged a clone of the skeleton project (so you don't have to be online to use the feature) and made a few small improvements. Today it was pointed out to me that it is GPLv2/3 licensed which is not very helpful to people wanting to use it. https://git.enlightenment.org/tools/skeleton.git My intent is to move this to BSD - does anyone have objections to this plan? Specifically I need a response from Cedric, Jérémy and Tom who have contributed to this project over the last 18 months. I have already changed elm_code to LGPL expecting it's inclusion into EFL or Elementary and I will look at the license of EDI itself later. I'm in favour of moving it to BSD. As I said on IRC, it's crazy it was created as GPL in the first place. i might even argue that skeletons should be public domain maybe? basically provide zero worries on license of an app you start making with edi - license choice is yours totally. that'd be the right way at least for core/common templates. perhaps very large/complex ones might come with more involved licenses... but the basic stuff... public domain. -- - Codito, ergo sum - I code, therefore I am -- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)ras...@rasterman.com -- ___ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
