Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating copyright model in license

[Fernando P. <fpe...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> As many of you are well aware, John Hunter has been the sole copyright
> holder on matplotlib from the beginning.  I'm sorry it's taken nearly a year
> to do this (as can often happen in sad situations like this), but I think we
> do need to address it going forward.
>
> I have a PR for this change in #2195.
>
> Heavily influenced by the IPython licensing, I propose to move us to a
> shared copyright model, where authors retain copyright on their individual
> contributions, but the code base as a whole belongs to the entire community
> of contributors. This does not actually change the license from the BSD one
> that we have had all along, so should have no impact on its usability in or
> with other projects.  I feel pretty strongly that this is the right
> direction, as it reflects that matplotlib was and is a community project.
> (And just to be clear, this is in no way an attempt to reduce John's credit
> for the amazing work that he began).

+1

Not that I have any right to speak for him, but I suspect/imagine that
he would have been totally on board with this plan, and I wouldn't be
surprised if the fact that it hadn't happened before wasn't simply an
oversight.

Very happy to see you take this step, I think it's the right approach.

Cheers,

f