On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@sfconservancy.org> wrote: > Walter Bender wrote at 07:09 (EDT) on Saturday: >> (1) We have some of the core Sugar code still under LGPLv2 (e.g., >> sugar-artwork) which we would like to change to LGPLv3. (2) We would >> like to add a second (Apache) license to this same code. > > Can you confirm the license of the LGPLv2'd code? Specifically, my > question is: "Is that code licensed LGPLv2-or-later or LGPLv2-only?" > That detail is very important, because ... > >> [I]s there a specific mechanism we should use when reaching out to >> authors? > > ... if the code is already LGPLv2-or-later, you *don't* need the > copyright holders *separate* permission to relicense under LGPLv3, > because such permission is already given. If it's LGPLv2-only, you > *will* need to get permission from copyright holders to relicense. If > you need to do the latter, Conservancy is happy to help with that. > (We've helped other Conservancy member projects do similar in the past.)
I am guessing it is LGPLv2 only. The license is in the COPYING file, not in each SVG. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-artwork/blob/master/COPYING > >> (3) We want to incorporate some code snippets from some code that "is >> placed in the public domain". Can we include this in an LGPLv3 >> library? And how do we acknowledge the original author (i.e., do we >> include him in the new copyright notification)? > > Public domain dedications are tricky. Can you show us the full details > of who put the item into the public domain and how? In most countries, > it's not possible to easily "put something in the public domain", but > depending on how they did, we could consider their "public domain > dedication" to be a permissive license. https://github.com/sodabrew/fatattr/blob/master/fatattr.c I grab some bits and piece that got incorporated into: https://github.com/dnarvaez/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/sugar-fatattr.c > > If we're able to communicate with the copyright holder(s) who wish to > put the work into the "public domain", we'd recommend they use CC-0 ( > http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ). > -- > Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
