And here are the mails from everyone with their agreement. -- Franz Schrober On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Franz Schrober <franzschrober@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > many different people (especially Dan Carpenter) worked quite hard to contact > all people with significant contributions. The two changes are the ones which > should change the license from the problematic OSL[1] to the more liberal MIT > license. The initial agreement was reached when Novafora (successor in > interest to Transmeta Corporation) accepted such a license [2]. The commit > provided by them is attached as "relicense.bundle" [3] and has to be > unbundled+merged in the sparse repository before the following patches can be > applied. > > The changes can also be pulled from > > git pull https://github.com/franzschrober/sparse.git master > > Btw. when somebody has to ask me in the future about a license change of these > two patches: do whatever you want. They can be considered public domain. > > The change of this patchset compared to the first version are: > > * Benjamin Herrenschmidt and Chris Wedgwood were added to the Acked-by list > because they've also agreed to the license change > * Reverts for James Westby's contributions were added because it seems that he > is the only person not agreeing to the license change (he was not reachable > over social media or any of his email accounts) > * An alternative patch for the implicit casting bug found James Westby was > added > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Open_Software_License_.28OSL.29_v1.1 > [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/328560/ > [3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparse&m=138548610116314&w=2 >
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