Re: [Cvs-syncmail] What is cvs-syncmail's license?

[Kevin R. <ke...@ro...>]

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> I'm nearly positive I chose "Python license" when I set up the
> project.  Certainly the intent was to put a Pythonic license on the
> thing, and perhaps eventually donate it to the PSF.

Hi Barry, thanks for the reply.

> Unfortunately, if you actually read the PSF license for Python, it's
> pretty specific to Python and the fact that the PSF is the entity that
> is actually doing the licensing.  It doesn't really apply out of the
> box to syncmail.

Yeah, I saw that.

> We certainly could donate syncmail to the PSF, but there (still :(
> ) isn't a really great mechanism for doing.  The best that's out there
> is a proposed contribution form:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/psf/psf-contributor-agreement.html

I'm not familiar with other software that has had copyrights assigned
to the PSF, but I suspect that it has happed.

> BTW, I brought this up on the PSF mailing lists back in May, specific
> for syncmail.  Like too many other things, we lost interest and the
> thread died without traction (I blame myself for that).  At the time,
> I proposed the following license.  Note that that it would require
> donating the software to the PSF, and then there's the question of who
> would need to do the donating (everyone who's committed changes to the
> code, just me, etc...)

The PSF License looks fine. On the other hand, it is very similar to a
BSD license except that the copyright is owned by the PSF. Rather that
going through the efforts of assigning copyrights, perhaps sometime
like the below would be acceptable.

Thanks again for discussing this. I hope that a license is chosen soon
so that I can add your fine product to the Debian distribution.

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