Re: [OctDev] License Andy Adler's code in Octave-Forge

[Carnë D. <car...@gm...>]

Hi everyone

I realize now I should have CC'ed the mailing list from the start to
have this public. Doing it now for those purposes.

I asked Andy to relicense his code in OF (image and general package)
and he agreed to do it for GPLv3+. I have just made the commit that
does exactly that.

https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11396

Carnë

On 5 November 2012 22:04, Andy Adler <ad...@sc...> wrote:
> Hi Carnë
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> I'm happy to see it relicenced under the GPL 3+ if you'd like.
>
> Thanks for doing this.
> --
> Andy Adler <ad...@sc...> +1-613-520-2600x8785
>
>
> On 5 November 2012 13:44, Carnë Draug <car...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi Andy
>>
>> could you please take a look at this soon? I want to make a new
>> release of the image package but the license you wrote for SHA1.cc,
>> bwselect, bwfill and rotate_scale are a blocker. Again, I would
>> recommend that you choose GPLv3+. Otherwise, simplified BSD would work
>> fine. Just write back to me which one and I'll take care of everything
>> else.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Carnë
>>
>> On 28 October 2012 14:40, Carnë Draug <car...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Hi Andy
>>>
>>> I'm Carnë Draug, current maintainer of the Octave Forge project and
>>> the image package. We have a couple of your functions written by you
>>> in the project. We are very thankful of your contribution but I'm
>>> afraid that the non-standard license you have chosen may become a
>>> problem. Your license text reads:
>>>
>>> // Copyright (C) 1999 Andy Adler
>>> // This code has no warrany whatsoever.
>>> // Do what you like with this code as long as you leave this copyright in place.
>>>
>>> Could you please use a more standard one? Being able to give it a
>>> recognisable name not only eases our organisation but also its
>>> acceptance by downstream package maintainers such as Debian. From
>>> Debian's upstream guide "Please do not write your own license text if
>>> you can at all avoid it. Depending on your wishes, the GPL, LGPL or a
>>> BSD-style license will most likely be appropriate, and it is far
>>> easier to tell whether something is allowed if we can look at past
>>> discussions of the same text. "
>>>
>>> I would prefer if you choose something such as GPLv3+ of course. Your
>>> later contributions to the project were actually under this license,
>>> only your older code shows this license. However, if you wish to keep
>>> the spirit of the current license, some less typical license which
>>> have at least already been revised by the FSF and OSI are (I tried to
>>> sort them in order of how closely they enforce the principles in your
>>> current license):
>>>
>>> * simplifiedBSD (the license in this link is the FreeBSD license. The
>>> simplified BSD refers to the same but without the disclaimer at the
>>> bottom) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license#2-clause_license_.28.22Simplified_BSD_License.22_or_.22FreeBSD_License.22.29
>>> * ICS license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
>>> * Fair license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Licence
>>> * WTFPL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_What_The_Fuck_You_Want_To_Public_License
>>> (not the this one is almost public and would also allow to remove the
>>> copyright provided the name is also changed)
>>>
>>> The files in question are:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11372/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/general/src/SHA1.cc
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11372/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/image/inst/bwselect.m
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11372/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/image/src/bwfill.cc
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11372/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/image/src/rotate_scale.cc
>>>
>>> On the file https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11372/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/image/inst/edge.m
>>> there is also a notice on line 138 mentioning that part of the code
>>> bears is under that same copyright notice.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry to bother with such non-scientific things. I'm not a lawyer
>>> myself, but unfortunately things like this need to be made clear.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Carnë Draug