Yes, I agree to have all the code that I contributed to Avogadro
relicensed to the 3-clause BSD license.


Albert DeFusco, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Technical Director, Center for Simulation and Modeling
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
412-648-3094
http://www.sam.pitt.edu

On Mar 13, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to everyone who responded so far. In less than a day we have
> responses from (which already covers a large portion of the code
> base),
> 
> Marcus D. Hanwell
> Casper Steinmann
> David Lonie
> Geoffrey Hutchison
> Jens Thomas
> Matthew Kennedy
> 
> This leaves the following people (added to CC from emails found in git
> log). If they are no longer subscribed to the list we could make the
> list open for a few days as Eigen did (although it opened them up to
> quite a bit of spam too). The list below is crudely de-duplicated by
> me and roughly sorted by number of lines changed. I have not yet
> analyzed exactly what those lines were, but would certainly appreciate
> responses from all contributors.
> 
> Tim Vandermeersch
> Konstantin Tokarev
> Donald Ephraim Curtis
> Eric Brown
> Michael Banck
> Jogvan Magnus Olsen
> Albert DeFusco
> Benoit Jacob
> Carsten Niehaus
> James Bunt
> Naomi Fox
> Raimondas Galvelis
> Ross Braithwaite
> Jordan Mantha
> Shahzad Ali
> Simon Ochsenreither
> Gary Kedziora
> Kristof Bal
> Reinis Danne
> Egon Willighagen
> 
> The full email is included below, with the most important part being a
> response (to the Avogadro development list),
> 
> If you contributed code to Avogadro, please reply to this email with
> either one of the following statements (adapted from the Eigen
> relicensing effort led by Benoit),
> 
>  Yes, I agree to have all the code that I contributed to Avogadro
> relicensed to the 3-clause BSD license.
> 
> or
> 
>  No, I do not agree.
> 
> Anything other than the above "Yes" sentence will mean "No". Without
> your agreement we will make no attempt to port your contribution to
> Avogadro 2's code base.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcus
> 
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Jens <linuck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I agree to have all the code that I contributed to Avogadro relicensed
>> to the 3-clause BSD license.
>> 
>> Jens
>> 
>> On 12 March 2013 20:35, Marcus D. Hanwell <marcus.hanw...@kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> We have talked about this offline, and at times on the list. As many
>>> of you already know we are working on a rewrite of Avogadro, and we
>>> are preparing to make an initial alpha release. It features many great
>>> new features, but does not yet have feature parity with Avogadro 1.x.
>>> Avogadro 2 is a rewrite and re-architecture of Avogadro using a
>>> simpler, more liberal 3-clause BSD license. A lot of the API has
>>> changed, and we invite community participation. For some background to
>>> the project please see,
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.openchemistry.org/
>>> http://www.slideshare.net/cryos/the-open-chemistry-project
>>> 
>>> You can see the latest version make use of obabel command line tools
>>> for file translation, geometry optimization, and other pieces using a
>>> qprocess to manage execution. We are also looking at using this
>>> approach to run Python and Java in a more loosely coupled form, and we
>>> have ported most of the input generators to use a much simpler
>>> scripting framework where the addition of scripts can add new
>>> generators to the GUI using pure Python, or other languages.
>>> 
>>> To that end, we would like to know which of our Avogadro contributors
>>> agree to relicensing their contributions under the 3-clause BSD
>>> license, linked below,
>>> 
>>> http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
>>> 
>>> If you contributed code to Avogadro, please reply to this email with
>>> either one of the following statements (adapted from the Eigen
>>> relicensing effort led by Benoit),
>>> 
>>>  Yes, I agree to have all the code that I contributed to Avogadro
>>> relicensed to the 3-clause BSD license.
>>> 
>>> or
>>> 
>>>  No, I do not agree.
>>> 
>>> Anything other than the above "Yes" sentence will mean "No". Without
>>> your agreement we will make no attempt to port your contribution to
>>> Avogadro 2's code base, we would also love input from our contributors
>>> on Avogadro 2, and have made every attempt to address many of the
>>> shortcomings we perceived in Avogadro.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Marcus


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