Fins with me also. -Br Naveen <div>On 9/14/07, Frederic Crozat <<a href="mailto:fcrozat@mandriva.com">fcrozat@mandriva.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Le jeudi 13 septembre 2007 à 15:18 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : > [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. Fine with me. -- Frederic Crozat <<a href="mailto:fcrozat@mandriva.com">fcrozat@mandriva.com</a>> Mandriva _______________________________________________ dbus mailing list <a href="mailto:dbus@lists.freedesktop.org"> dbus@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus</a> </blockquote></div>