[Sugar-devel] draft language asking permission to relicense (was Re: Licensing of the javascript libraries)

[Walter Bender]

It is a relatively short list:

Walter Bender (walter at sugarlabs.org)  I approve
Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.org
Gary Martin garycmartin at gmail.com
Christian Marc Schmidt anything at christianmarcschmidt.com
Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.vizoso at gmail.com
Manuel Quinones manuq at laptop.org
Eben Eliason eben.eliason at gmail.com
Marco Pesenti Gritti marco at marcopg.org
Benjamin Berg benzea at sugarlabs.org

Did I miss anyone?

regards.

-walter

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Tony Sebro <tony at sfconservancy.org> wrote:
> On 06/18/2013 12:19 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>>
>> Meanwhile, Conservancy can help draft an email for permission to assent.
>> I'll coordinate with Tony on it and get back to you as soon as we can.
>
> Hi, all:
> Here's some draft language we can use to collect the consent of various
> copyright holders to the relicensing of code under the Apache license.
>
> If you give Conservancy a clear git log of people to contact, we can do the
> work of collecting and recording the responses of contributors.
>
> Best,
> -Tony
>
> ----
> Hello;
>
> You're receiving this email because you are a contributor of code and/or
> other copyrighted content to the Sugar Labs project.  Software Freedom
> Conservancy is the nonprofit corporate home of Sugar Labs, and we thank you
> for your contribution.
>
> We're writing you ask that you grant Conservancy and Sugar Labs permission
> to relicense the code and associated files stored in the
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-artwork repository (currently licensed
> under LGPL v2 or later) under the Apache License 2.0 as a second license.
> The result would be that everything in that repository would be available
> for use under both the LGPL2+ and the Apache License 2.0 concurrently.
>
> By adding the Apache License as a second license, Sugar Labs would be able
> to reuse code from /sugar-artwork in javascript libraries under the Apache
> license, and include javascript libraries licensed under the Apache License
> inside Sugar Labs application bundles [note:  feel free to suggest a
> stronger/more clearly-articulated rationale as a replacement. -Tony]
>
> Please indicate your permission by replying to this email with the
> following:
> - the words "I approve."
> - your full name
>
> We'll keep your email as record of your consent.
>
> Thanks again for your contribution and your continued support of the Sugar
> Labs project.
>
> --
> Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy
> +1-212-461-3245 x11
> tony at sfconservancy.org
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>



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