[sork] About license of sork modules

[Gregory Colpart]

Hi,

With comments here and on debian-legal lists, I wll try to
convince sork authors to switch to another license.

The text could be :

############
You participate to Horde sork modules [1], thanks for your great
work. Are you agree to change your Horde sork modules to :

* Horde BSD-like license [2] : Y or N ?
* GPL license [3] : Y or N ?

[1] http://www.horde.org/sork/
[2] http://www.horde.org/licenses/bsdl.php
[3] http://www.horde.org/licenses/gpl.php
############


To begin this "mass mailing", I will dump authors on forwards
module :


@author in PHP file :

Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>

Ilya Krel <mail at krel.org> -> driver dev
Kendrick Vargas <ken at hudat.com> -> driver dev
Marc Jauvin <marc at r4l.com> -> driver dev
Mike Cochrane <mike at graftonhall.co.nz> -> driver dev

CREDITS file :

Mathieu Clabaut (no mail) -> original author
Tjeerd van der Zee (no mail) -> courier driver
Eric Keto (no mail) -> two img contributions

Translator in CREDITS file :

David Chang <david at tmv.gov.tw>
Pavel Chytil <pavel at chytil.tk>
Espen Jürgensen <espen at hhkol.dk>
Brian Truelsen <horde+i18n at briantruelsen.dk>
Tero Matinlassi <terom at iki.fi>
Daniel Huhardeaux <daniel.huhardeaux at tootai.com>
Benoit St-André (no mail)
Pierre Lachance <pl at pierrelachance.net> 
Rafael Varela <rafael.varela at usc.es>
Guillermo Mendez <guille at usc.es>
Jens A Tkotz <jens.tkotz at f2h9.de>
Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
Matin Tamás <matintom at web.de> 
Alessio Ciregia <alessio at ifc.cnr.it>
Per-Stian Vatne <psv at orsta.org>
MetaNET Amirkabir <persian-horde at metanetworking.com>
Piotr Kuczynski <pkuczynski at hypode.pl>
João César Marigonda <joao at webnow.com.br>
Marius Dragulescu <mariusd at urban-grafx.ro>
Eugen Hoanca <eugenh at urban-grafx.ro> 
Dmitriy MiksIr <miksir at maker.ru>
Manuel Perez Ayala <mayala at unex.es>

from CVS logs :

Jason M. Felice" <jfelice at cronosys.com>
Benoit Branciard <Benoit.Branciard at univ-paris1.fr>
Richard.Heggs at nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Ben Scott <bscott at chiark.greenend.org.uk> -> fix typo
Mitja Kolsek <mitja.kolsek at acros.si>
Thierry Thomas <thierry at pompo.net>
markus.ruth at rrc-ps.de
David Chang <david at thbuo.gov.tw>
Per-Stian Vatne <psv at orsta.org>
Tero Matinlassi <tero.matinlassi at edu.vantaa.fi>
selsky at columbia.edu -> bug in driver
Jan Kuipers <jrkuipers at lauwerscollege.nl>
Mathieu Arnold <arn_mat at club-internet.fr>
Andreas Dahlén <andreas at dahlen.ws>,
Leena Heino <liinu at uta.fi>
Tero Matinlassi <tero.matinlassi at edu.vantaa.fi>
Christopher Crowley ccrowley at tulane.edu
Roel Gloudemans <roel at gloudemans.info> -> update menu.inc



By reading comments on debian-legal lists, I think just core
and drivers authors shoud be asked. What do you think ?
Then no answer is needing for translators or "CVS log authors".

If you are on authors list, please say if you agree with
switching to GPL or BSD license (perhaps better if you use
PGP/GPG to sign your decision).


The major problem is when we have no answer from an author. We
could deliver an ultimatum (four weeks?). And after, if an author
doesn't agree, we remove his code of new (GPL|BSD) version. I
think that it is not a real problem because majority of code was
written by two or three persons. And probably there is no reason
for someone to be againt this switch...



On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:07:33AM +0200, Gregory Colpart wrote:
> Today all sork modules are with Apache License 1.1-like
> license [1]. This license seems not clearly free for Debian [2]
> and this could be a problem to have packages for this modules in
> Debian. Please read this thread [3] on debian-devel list to have
> explanations.
> 
> To sum up, I hope convincing authors to do one of following
> actions:
> 
> - switch license to Apache license 2.0 like [4],
> - switch licens to 3-clause BSD [5] or Horde BSD-like [6],
> - switch license to GPL [7].
> 
> Note that dual licensing could be a solution too.
> 
> 
> Perhaps, I should ask this in all (core|drivers) developers listed
> in CREDITS file (but copyright in LICENSE file is for "The Horde
> Project" and copyright in PHP files are for Eric Rostetter).
> 
> 
> [1] : http://www.horde.org/licenses/asl.php
> [2] : http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> [3] : http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/04/msg00136.html
> [4] : http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
> [5] : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/BSD_3Clause.html
> [6] : http://www.horde.org/licenses/bsdl.php
> [7] : http://www.horde.org/licenses/gpl.php 



Regards,
-- 
Gregory Colpart <reg at evolix.fr>  GnuPG:1024D/C1027A0E
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