I oppose! No, kidding. This sounds like a good move to me. Christian <div>On 9/13/07, Ryan Lortie <<a href="mailto:desrt@desrt.ca">desrt@desrt.ca </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">[This email has been sent to the dbus mailing list and to everyone who has ever contributed to dbus.  This e-mail is a first pass; a second email will probably be sent after I discover working email addresses for the bounces I get from this email.] You are receiving this email because you have, in some way, contributed to dbus. dbus is currently made available under the union of The Academic Free License version 2.1 and the GNU General Public License version 2. This combination of licences prevents some free software applications from legally using dbus.  A very simple example is GPLv3 applications (GPL versions 2 and 3 are incompatible).  There are other examples as well. There was a meeting of dbus developers at GUADEC and it was agreed by all present that it would be best to move dbus to a MIT/X11 style licence. The AFL 2.1 (under which dbus is currently available) is almost the same as the X11 licence except for the patent clause in the AFL.  The patent clause is thought to be so weak as to be nearly ineffective.  The clause causes confusion, though, and more importantly, introduces GPL incompatibility. The text of the proposed new licence (MIT/X11) is as follows:       Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person       obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation       files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without       restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,       modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies       of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is       furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:       The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be       included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.       THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,       EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF       MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND       NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT       HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,       WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,       OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER       DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Of course, in order to complete the relicense, we need the approval of all contributors to the affected code. Please "reply to all" to this email (ie: sending replies to <<a href="mailto:desrt@desrt.ca">desrt@desrt.ca</a>> and <<a href="mailto:dbus@lists.freedesktop.org"> dbus@lists.freedesktop.org</a>>) indicating your willingness or unwillingness to have your contributions to dbus relicensed under the above terms. Even if you believe your contributions to be trivial, please reply. If you have no idea what this email is about, then I apologise, but still ask that you please contact me directly (Ryan Lortie <<a href="mailto:desrt@desrt.ca">desrt@desrt.ca</a>>). Cheers </blockquote></div> -- Christian Hammond - <a href="mailto:chipx86@chipx86.com">chipx86@chipx86.com</a> VMware, Inc.