Yes, I agree to have all the code that I contributed to Avogadro relicensed
to the 3-clause BSD license.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> > 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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