Re: Companies and contributors should know ...

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Although, and I want to be very clear about this,

A Tinymail 1.0 will be LGPL v2 (not v3)


On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:37 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> That Tinymail's own code is LGPL v2 "or later", and that it's very
> likely that I will switch to the successor of the LGPL license
> (effectively switching, so that it's only LGPL v3 and not lower anymore,
> starting that date).
> 
> If you don't agree with that, then don't contribute and/or don't start
> using Tinymail for your projects.
> 
> I will most likely reimplement all of Tinymail's code that isn't mine in
> case the author of such a piece disagrees with an upgrade to LGPL v3.
> I'm already planning to take a few days off in case that's necessary (so
> far, it seems it wont be necessary).
> 
> The vast majority of Tinymail is copyrighted by me, with a large excep-
> tion for the camel-lite parts. For that, although it seems to have a "or
> later" copyright too, I will most likely follow the copyright decisions
> of upstream.
> 
> I will do this as a "you tell me if you disagree"-change. Either you are
> silent and that means that you agree, or you tell me privately and that
> means that you disagree. You will have to identify each and every piece
> of contribution of which you don't agree that a license change will
> happen.
> 
> I don't want vague responses like: I disagree, while you only contrib-
> uted a one-line change to a certain file. I want the exact lines that
> are to be kept LGPL v2.
> 
> ps. Each and every contributor is on this mailing list with the excep-
> tion of the camel-lite pieces of Tinymail (of which the license wont
> change at all, unless upstream decides different).
> 
> The license change will happen when the final text of LGPL v3 is
> published, or a few days later, or not (depending on that final text).
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Philip Van Hoof, software developer
home: me at pvanhoof dot be 
gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org 
http://www.pvanhoof.be/blog