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Bruce Badger

Re: Swazoo license

Janko,

A change of license is not the kind of thing that gets decided by a
vote. Each contributor owns the copyright to their contribution(s)
and each and every contributor must be persuaded to agree to a change
in the license to be used from a given point onward.

It does not matter how many people think the BSD-like licenses are
cool, or how many think GPL related licenses are cool (there are
plenty of both). What matters is what the contributors to Swazoo
think - individually.

All the best,
Bruce
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Janko Mivšek

Re: Swazoo license

Bruce,

Bruce Badger wrote:

> A change of license is not the kind of thing that gets decided by a
> vote. Each contributor owns the copyright to their contribution(s)
> and each and every contributor must be persuaded to agree to a change
> in the license to be used from a given point onward.

Exactly, but it is also nice that minority listen to majority, specially
when it has arguments. Vice versa of course too. And that each member is
trying to listen and adapt to the wish of the community and not only to
wishes of himself. That's how successful communities work anyway, all
towards the a common goal.

Best regards
JAnko

Mark A. Schwenk-2

Re: Swazoo license

I agree to relicensing under the MIT license. If an agreement cannot be reached from all contributors for the current code base, how about reverting to an earlier version, obtaining agreement from all contributors to that version, and continuing on from there under the MIT license?

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> wrote:

Bruce,

Bruce Badger wrote:

> A change of license is not the kind of thing that gets decided by a
> vote. Each contributor owns the copyright to their contribution(s)
> and each and every contributor must be persuaded to agree to a change
> in the license to be used from a given point onward.

Exactly, but it is also nice that minority listen to majority, specially
when it has arguments. Vice versa of course too. And that each member is
trying to listen and adapt to the wish of the community and not only to
wishes of himself. That's how successful communities work anyway, all
towards the a common goal.

Best regards
JAnko

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Bruce Badger

Re: Swazoo license

On 19/04/2008, Mark A. Schwenk <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I agree to relicensing under the MIT license. If an agreement cannot be
> reached from all contributors for the current code base, how about reverting
> to an earlier version, obtaining agreement from all contributors to that
> version, and continuing on from there under the MIT license?

Hi Mark,

Forking a new project under a new license is one approach that has
been suggested. I hope we can avoid that.

Also, no matter what approach is taken to a license change, all code
contributors up to the point (in the revision history) of a fork need
to individually agree to the proposed license. To that very end I
just posted a list of the accounts (and thus people) that had made
contributions to the Cincon public Store. Mark, is your account on
that list (mas, perhaps)?

All the best,
Bruce
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Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills
http://www.openskills.org/

Mark A. Schwenk-2

Re: Swazoo license

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Bruce Badger <[hidden email]> wrote:

To that very end I
just posted a list of the accounts (and thus people) that had made
contributions to the Cincon public Store. Mark, is your account on
that list (mas, perhaps)?

Yes, I am mas.