Hi to all,
today I got a reply from Ingo Schröder stating that he is ok with us
changing the
license of acopost, as long as he does not have to take any kind of warranty.
So I think it is possible to discuss the license now. :-) My preference here
goes to Expat, BSD-3 or BSD-2.
Is it ok with you to use one of these license for future releases?
Bests,
Giulio.
Il 31/05/2013 14:53, Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen ha scritto:
> Hello to you both,
>
> I agree with Tiago on both points:
>
> a) I would be open to discussing a license change, but
>
> b) I believe our hands are tied unless we can contact the original
> authors and get permission for the license change.
>
> Best,
>
> Ulrik
>
> On 05/31/2013 02:32 PM, Tiago Tresoldi wrote:
>> Hi Giulio,
>>
>> I still like the GPL, but would not mind discussing a new license. You
>> make a good point, especially if we consider that people want acopost
>> because it is pure C and free of dependencies.
>>
>> However, I am afraid our hands are tied: as expected from an academic
>> research project released to the public in 2000/2001, Ingo clearly
>> licensed his source under GPL2 (and some parts of it, like primes.c,
>> seem to be taken from other projects and thus might have additional
>> authors) and there is no arguing that acopost is still, essentially,
>> his code. I suppose that the only thing that could be done, legally,
>> would be to agree moving to GPL3, which I would probably support but
>> does not solve your problem (in a way, it makes it worse).
>>
>> The other option would of course be to contact Ingo, but as I told
>> Ulrik it seems impossible. I tried everything I could to contact him,
>> I then tried his collegues from University of Hamburg and Kilian Foth,
>> while very helpful and excited that people were still interested in
>> acopost, replied me this:
>>
>>> As you will have suspected, the original inventors have moved on - far on
>>> (Ingo Schröder now has a different career and a family and a house to deal
>>> with), and I wouldn't know how to contact either of them anymore.
>> Besides that, the fact that Ingo Schröder is not an uncommon name in
>> Germany does not make it easier...
>>
>> Bests,
>>
>> Tiago
>>
>> 2013/5/31 Giulio Paci <giuliop...@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi to all,
>>> I would like to know your opinion about the acopost license and if
>>> it would be possible to change its license to a more liberal one (e.g., the
>>> Expat or the BSD-3 licences).
>>>
>>> I do not know your opinion about software licenses and mine is still
>>> evolving, however I reached a point where I mostly dislike GPL.
>>> I like its spirit and its goals, but as a developer I am much more
>>> interested in having the code available for any purpose, including mixing
>>> it with closed source software.
>>> For this reason I used to like LGPL much more than GPL. However it is
>>> usually very difficult to respect LGPL terms, especially with big projects,
>>> if you are using any
>>> closed source module.
>>>
>>> What is your opinion about it?
>>>
>>> Bests,
>>> Giulio.
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