dbus: Proposed relicense to MIT/X11

[Naveen Verma]

Fins with me also.

-Br
Naveen

On 9/14/07, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com> wrote:
>
> 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 <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
> Mandriva
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