Re: Request for goffice relicensing

["J.M. Maurer" <uwog uwog net>]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:24 +0100, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> State of the licenses for the files listed at the end is:
>
> Possibly problematic files:
>
> goffice/app/go-cmd-context-impl.h: no license

People who touched the code after the removal from gnumeric (and move to
goffice): Jody, Jean. 

This file came from cut-n-paste-code/goffice/app/ before the goffice
split.

However I can't find where this header came from before the move to cut-n-paste-code, but I guess it came 
from gnumeric itself (which could mean this file was originally GPLv2+).

> goffice/gtk/go-colorgroup.c: Michael Levy, Almer S. Tigelaar, Jody
> Goldberg
> goffice/gtk/go-colorgroup.h: Michael Levy, Almer S. Tigelaar
> goffice/gtk/go-combo-color.c: Ximian, Inc.
> goffice/gtk/go-combo-color.h: Ximian, Inc.
> goffice/gtk/go-color-palette.c: Ximian, Inc.
> goffice/gtk/go-color-palette.h: Ximian, Inc.
> goffice/gtk/go-combo-box.c: Ximian, Inc.
> goffice/gtk/go-combo-box.h: Ximian, Inc.

Does anyone have a good contact within Novell these days that I could
ask for a relicensing request?

Also note that not only Ximian touched these files. Many more people did
(Jody, Morten, jdassen, Jean, Emanual, ivanwong, etc)

> goffice/gtk/goffice-gtk.h: no copyright.

People who touched the code after the removal from gnumeric (and move to goffice): Jody, jhellan, jdassen 
(only updated the FSF address), emmanuel, skasal, Morten, Emmanuel, Dom Lachowicz (he stole code from GTK, so 
that would be LGPLv2+), 

I can't find yet where this file came from before the split.

> goffice/utils/go-file.c: Morten Welinder, Yukihiro Nakai, Red Hat, Inc.
> goffice/utils/go-glib-extras.c: no copyright, just authors and no
> license.
> goffice/utils/go-glib-extras.h: no license.


go-glib-extras.{c,h} came from gnumeric ./src/gutils.{c,h} before the split, which would imply that it was 
GPLv2+ licensed.

People who touched the code since the split: Morten, Jody, ivanwong, Emanuel, Jean


I hope I didn't miss anyone while doing the svn voodoo.

Cheers,
   Marc


> Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 21:54 +0100, Jean Bréfort a écrit :
> > Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 21:34 +0100, J.M. Maurer a écrit :
> > > Hi there gnumeric hackers!
> > >
> > > As some of you might have read (http://uwog.net/news/?p=99), we have a
> > > bit of a licensing problem with AbiWord.
> > >
> > > The short version is that goffice's license (GPLv2), doesn't play nice
> > > with one of AbiWord's dependencies, which is LGPLv3+ licensed.
> > >
> > > After discussing this on our mailing list, our preferred solution seems
> > > to be a relicensing of goffice, from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.
> > >
> > > Would this be an option that all copyright holders of gofffice could
> > > live with? If so, we'd created appreciate it.
> > >
> > > If there is anything I can do to help, please contact me. I don't want
> > > to burden you all with boring work :)
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >   Marc
> >
> > Files imported in abiword, and needing the relicensing in priority are
> > the following (all from the 0.4 branch):
> >
> > goffice/goffice.h
> > goffice/goffice.c
> > goffice/goffice-priv.h
> > goffice/app/go-cmd-context.c
> > goffice/app/go-cmd-context.h
> > goffice/app/go-cmd-context-impl.h
> > goffice/app/goffice-app.h
> > goffice/gtk/go-color-group.c
> > goffice/gtk/go-color-selector.c
> > goffice/gtk/go-combo-color.c
> > goffice/gtk/go-palette.c
> > goffice/gtk/go-color-group.h
> > goffice/gtk/go-color-selector.h
> > goffice/gtk/go-combo-color.h
> > goffice/gtk/go-palette.h
> > goffice/gtk/go-color-palette.c
> > goffice/gtk/go-combo-box.c
> > goffice/gtk/goffice-gtk.c
> > goffice/gtk/go-color-palette.h
> > goffice/gtk/go-combo-box.h
> > goffice/gtk/goffice-gtk.h
> > goffice/utils/go-color.c
> > goffice/utils/go-file.c
> > goffice/utils/go-glib-extras.h
> > goffice/utils/go-marshalers.c
> > goffice/utils/go-color.h
> > goffice/utils/go-file.h
> > goffice/utils/go-image.c
> > goffice/utils/go-marshalers.h
> > goffice/utils/goffice-utils.h
> > goffice/utils/go-glib-extras.c
> > goffice/utils/go-image.h
> >
> > As far as I'm concern, I fully agree with the relicensing.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jean