On 7/3/09, Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Can you weigh in on the licensing threads, pretty please? That is
>> still blocked on you, AFAIK.
>
> Sure.
>
> For my part, I'd *love* to see Sparse relicensed to something more
> palatable. Ideally, I'd love to see Sparse become GPL-compatible. I'd
> prefer a stronger copyleft over a weaker one.
>
> I have no problem with relicensing Sparse to any of the following
> licenses, in rough order of preference:
>
> - GPL (v2 or v3, with or without "or any later version")
> - LGPL (v2.1 or v3, with or without "or any later version")
> - Either of the above with some kind of additional exception similar to
> those used for GCC and related libraries.
> - Any of the above dual-licensed with the OSL, if people care about
> preserving that for some reason. Seems unnecessarily complex to do
> so, though.
>
> I'd prefer not to see Sparse relicensed to something entirely
> non-copyleft like the MIT license, but if the rest of the Sparse
> community wants that for some reason, I won't stand in the way.
>
> If you need any more formal approval from me, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh Triplett
> --
I'm not a lawyer or anything. Does this mean we're done? Can the
Debian people move sparse out of non-free? Can I re-license smatch?
I used the following command to find who might have to sign off.
git log 1bcc92138dcdf718dc3e0c694565f56e669d6ee3 master | grep Author
| cut -d : -f 2- | cut -d '<' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | less
Here are the list of people with other 5 commits. Maybe you should
need at least 10 to get a vote?
6 Blue Swirl
6 Kamil Dudka
6 Michael Stefaniuc
7 Alexey Dobriyan
7 Damien Lespiau
7 terra@xxxxxxxxx
8 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8 Johannes Berg
9 Dave Olien
12 Pavel Roskin
16 Alexey Zaytsev
16 Oleg Nesterov
20 Luc Van Oostenryck
45 Alexander Viro
45 Jeff Garzik
69 Christopher Li
75 welinder@xxxxxxxxx
124 Al Viro
195 Josh Triplett
1250 Linus Torvalds
regards,
dan carpenter
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