Re: Taking over msrp: License change

[malex]

Hi everybody,

2010/12/15 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelie...@free.fr>:
> On 13/12/2010 18:02, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:
>> 2010/12/13 malex <male...@googlemail.com>:
>>> nice! what about switching to some GPL? or is there something to consider first?
>> Hmm, I am no lawyer so cannot say for certain.  But as for my personal
>> opinion I do not mind at all and
>> I will consider old versions already released under BSD to still be
>> usable under those terms whereas your new versions can be under GPL or
>> however you see fit and it is no problem for me either way.
>
> That could work. I would like to keep it BSD though, unless you object,
> Malex for no particular reason other than the fact I am interested in
> maintaining a BSD-licensed project, to see if there is any difference
> with the way people interact around it.

ok. how about "Simplified BSD License":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause_license_.28.22Simplified_BSD_License.22_or_.22FreeBSD_License.22.29
?

Aurélien, i guess we should do this change after rebasing master, right?

do you think it will be enough to change the "COPYING" file or which
of the following should we adjust as well: AUTHORS, NEWS, README,
doc/*, src/cliargs.cc:printHelp?

--
Sincerely Yours,
 Oleksandr Motsak

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On 15/12/2010 12:35, malex wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> 2010/12/15 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelie...@free.fr>:
>> On 13/12/2010 18:02, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:
>>> 2010/12/13 malex <male...@googlemail.com>:
>>>> nice! what about switching to some GPL? or is there something to consider first?
>>> Hmm, I am no lawyer so cannot say for certain. But as for my personal
>>> opinion I do not mind at all and
>>> I will consider old versions already released under BSD to still be
>>> usable under those terms whereas your new versions can be under GPL or
>>> however you see fit and it is no problem for me either way.
>>
>> That could work. I would like to keep it BSD though, unless you object,
>> Malex for no particular reason other than the fact I am interested in
>> maintaining a BSD-licensed project, to see if there is any difference
>> with the way people interact around it.
>
> ok. how about "Simplified BSD License":
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause_license_.28.22Simplified_BSD_License.22_or_.22FreeBSD_License.22.29
> ?

Fine with me.

> Aurélien, i guess we should do this change after rebasing master, right?

I agree.

> do you think it will be enough to change the "COPYING" file or which
> of the following should we adjust as well: AUTHORS, NEWS, README,
> doc/*, src/cliargs.cc:printHelp?

I think AUTHORS should contain something like this:

"""
Created and maintained by Rudi Cilibrasi <email> until 2010.
Currently maintained by Oleksandr Motsak <email> and Aurélien Gâteau
<email>.
"""

NEWS doesn't need to be changed

We should also replace Rudi email address in README and src/cliargs.cc
to point to http://msrp.github.com instead.

Aurélien

Aurélien

[malex]

Hi,

i rebased master onto of [msrp-from-rudi] and also started changing
the copyright.

if everything is fine - i will declare this branch to be [master].

do you know how to remove branches from repository?

btw, could you please try rebasing cmake onto it?

Yours,
malex

On Dec 16, 12:09 am, Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gat...@free.fr> wrote:
> On 15/12/2010 12:35, malex wrote:

> > 2010/12/15 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gat...@free.fr>:

> >> On 13/12/2010 18:02, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:

> >>> 2010/12/13 malex <malex...@googlemail.com>:

> >>>> nice! what about switching to some GPL? or is there something to consider first?
> >>> Hmm, I am no lawyer so cannot say for certain.  But as for my personal
> >>> opinion I do not mind at all and
> >>> I will consider old versions already released under BSD to still be
> >>> usable under those terms whereas your new versions can be under GPL or
> >>> however you see fit and it is no problem for me either way.
>
> >> That could work. I would like to keep it BSD though, unless you object,
> >> Malex for no particular reason other than the fact I am interested in
> >> maintaining a BSD-licensed project, to see if there is any difference
> >> with the way people interact around it.
>
> > ok. how about "Simplified BSD License":

> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause_license_.28.22Simp...

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On 16/12/2010 16:26, malex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i rebased master onto of [msrp-from-rudi] and also started changing
> the copyright.
>
> if everything is fine - i will declare this branch to be [master].
>
> do you know how to remove branches from repository?

Yes, it is something completely unintuitive :)

git push origin :name-of-branch-to-delete

> btw, could you please try rebasing cmake onto it?

It didn't properly rebase, probably because the branches have no common
history. I cherry-picked the commits into a new branch:

msrp-from-ruby-cmake

Aur�lien

[malex]

Hi,

On Dec 17, 12:07 am, Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gat...@free.fr> wrote:
> On 16/12/2010 16:26, malex wrote:
> > i rebased master onto of [msrp-from-rudi] and also started changing
> > the copyright.
> > if everything is fine - i will declare this branch to be [master].

it is [master] now!

> > do you know how to remove branches from repository?

> Yes, it is something completely unintuitive :)
> git push origin :name-of-branch-to-delete

thanks! works like a charm :) it's a bit cleaner now.
hm, can one also delete tags?

> > btw, could you please try rebasing cmake onto it?
> It didn't properly rebase, probably because the branches have no common
> history.

hm, did you try "git rebase --onto master 95993d9c63635 cmake" ?

> I cherry-picked the commits into a new branch:
> msrp-from-ruby-cmake

ok, but some commits are still missing, no?

malex