Hello, I don't think he technically needs my permission but just in case, I'm totally fine with it.
Cheers, Aleksander On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Maciej Sobczak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I believe this is the best place to publish this request, as very likely > all the interested contributors monitor this mailing list. > > I was just contacted by Vinnie Falco (mail address: vinnie.falco > followed by usual @ and then gmail.com), who has adopted SOCI for his > own project. He has done a tremendous work to ensure that all the > licenses and copyrights are obeyed and asked for permission to continue > with his derivative work. I have said "OK" on my behalf without any > hesitation, but at the same time I believe it is proper to inform the > other contributors and give them a chance to intervene (or... join > Vinnie? why not?). > > I believe it is fair to assume that those who are listed but do not > respond within some reasonable time frame (two weeks?) are implicitly > OK. In any case, please remember that the intent of SOCI was to share > and be open, and the Boost license was chosen specifically for its > permissive and liberal conditions. As far as I'm concerned it would be > contrary to the original spirit of the project to prevent anybody from > creating derivative works from SOCI, but feel free to contact Vinnie > directly to discuss your concerns, if any. > > So here it goes: > > -------- Original Message -------- > > From: Vinnie Falco <vinnie.falco you know where> > > Dear Maciej Sobczak: > > Hello. I've taken the wonderful Soci library and created a derivative > work. Specifically, I stripped away everything except the sqlite > backend, and then refactored the code to remove the ability to support > different backends (including all the indirection and abstract > interfaces). Finally, I added some sqlite specific features, made > minor adjustments to some implementation, and added some functionality > to the session object. > > Because my project aggregates my own sources (which are GPLv2), other > external library sources which are licensed under different permissive > terms, and Soci, I have updated the copyright notice attached to each > of my files derived from Soci to include all the authors, and inlined > the boost license (so it does not need to refer to an external file, > in case the source file gets detached from the rest of the project). > This updated header appears like this: > > > //============================================================================== > // > // Copyright (C) 2008 by Vinnie Falco, this file is part of VFLib. > // > // Based on SOCI - The C++ Database Access Library: > // http://soci.sourceforge.net/ > // > // This file is distributed under the following terms: > // > // Boost Software License - Version 1.0, August 17th, 2003 > // > // Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or > organization > // obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation > covered by > // this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute, > // execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works > of the > // Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is > furnished to > // do so, all subject to the following: > // > // The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, > including > // the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer, > // must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and > // all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative > // works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code > generated by > // a source language processor. > // > // 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, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO > EVENT > // SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE > LIABLE > // FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR > OTHERWISE, > // ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR > OTHER > // DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. > // > // This file incorporates work covered by the following copyright > // and permission notice: > // > // Copyright (C) 2004 Maciej Sobczak, Stephen Hutton, Mateusz Loskot, > // Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski, David Courtney, Rafal Bobrowski, > // Julian Taylor, Henning Basold, Ilia Barahovski, Denis Arnaud, > // Daniel Lidström, Matthieu Kermagoret, Artyom Beilis, Cory Bennett, > // Chris Weed, Michael Davidsaver, Jakub Stachowski, Alex Ott, Rainer > Bauer, > // Martin Muenstermann, Philip Pemberton, Eli Green, Frederic Chateau, > // Artyom Tonkikh, Roger Orr, Robert Massaioli, Sergey Nikulov, > // Shridhar Daithankar, Sören Meyer-Eppler, Mario Valesco. > // > > //============================================================================== > > I was careful to go through all of the mentioned authors. > Unfortunately, because of the extent of my modifications, it was not > practical for me to track down exactly which authors contributed to > each individual file. So I have erred on the conservative side and > included the names of anyone who might have a copyright claim. I > removed the copyright date range, and replaced it with the original > year of publication since that is the new international consensus on > conforming notices (see www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf). > > Is this acceptable to you and the other authors? Is this compatible > with the original spirit of the licensing terms? Please let me know so > I can confirm to the terms. > > Thanks, > > Vinnie > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. > Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. > Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 > _______________________________________________ > Soci-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-users >
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