[Supertuxkart-devel] GPLv3 & other licenses 2nd round

[E. A. H. M. <coz...@gm...>]

Hi list,

I'm going to start contacting programmers for permission to switch to
the GPLv3 and also to add the 'or later' clause that allows switching
to new versions of the GPL without contacting them.

I organized a list of the people to contact. If you think you should
be in this list but are not, please say so even if you would say yes
to the switch, since this list is taken mostly from the credits, and
you wouldn't want to be out of the credits, right?

Patches
----------
Charlie Head
Canarix
Damien
Maik Semder (Ikework)
Patrick Ammann
Paul Elms (scifly)
Robert Schuster

Original
---------
Steve Baker

GOTM
--------
Caleb Sawtell
Craig Keogh
Ingo Ruhnke
Jacob Persson
James Gregory
Matthias Braun
Oliver Jeeves
Pascal Giard
Paul Carley
Ricardo Cruz
Willian Padovani Germano

MacOSX port
----------------
Nuke
Florian
JPenguin
Marianne Gagnon (Auria)
TinGamer
Xeno74


I'll also ask artists for permissions to switch to the creative
commons version 3... however, an important detail is that we should
require that further edits to the art needs to be released under the
creative commons. Also, I included here the people with misc data,
like the challenges.

Original & GOTM
--------------------
Ingo Ruhnke
Steve Baker
Oliver Baker
Matt Thomas

New music
--------------
Weirwood
Asha B.
Lukas Siewert (Dr.Sternhagel)
Magne Djupvik
Paul Esra Martin (P@ule)
Stephan Wiefling

New art
----------
Canarix
Marianne Gagnon (Auria)
Frederico de Oliveira Linhares
Johannes Sjolund
Thomas Oppl

Game data
-------------
Paul Elms (challenges; not on the credits at the moment)
Constantin (physic parameters; not on the credits at the moment)
Hans Dzaack (physics tunning)

Finally the docs, switched to the gnu public documentation license:

Steve Baker
Ingo Ruhnke

Now, my biggest doubt is that, being basically illiterate in legal
matters, would an private e-mail, later forwarded to the mailing list
be enough?

-Coz