Hi Michael, to preserve privacy as this is a public mailinglist, could you please forward the relevant email thread to priv...@commons.apache.org ?
Thanks, Thomas On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Michael Tobias <mich...@tobias.org.uk> wrote: > Steve Morse has supplied me with an email trail from May 2011 where both > he and Alexander Beider give their permission to the developer who ported > the code from php to java to allow the algorithm to be licensed under the > Apache 2 open-source license. > > I can post the thread here or submit it privately - your call. > > Michael > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Gregory [mailto:garydgreg...@gmail.com] > Sent: 11 June 2014 16:39 > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [CODEC] Beider Morse Phonetic Matching Bug and questions > > I can but it won't be for s couple of hours... > > Gary > > <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Thomas Neidhart < > thomas.neidh...@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:06/11/2014 11:16 (GMT-05:00) > </div><div>To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> > </div><div>Subject: Re: [CODEC] Beider Morse Phonetic Matching Bug and > questions </div><div> </div>He stated several times that the contributed > code is a port from php, but it looks like that everybody assumed he was > the copyright owner of the php code (which he obviously isn't). > > It is important to add links (e.g. papers or reference implementations) > for such code / algorithms, especially in the case of ported code. > Not only to have a clear trace of the license situation but also to be > able to backport changes/fixes from the original source. > > Regarding the re-licensing of the original source: > > I hope the authors agree, but usually there is a reason why code is > published under GPL rather than BSD/MIT/Apache style licenses. > An option would be to explicitly grant the ASF the permission to use their > code (including the rule files) so that they do not have to re-publish > their own code. > > Regarding a clean-room implementation: I do not think this is feasible, as > the core of the algorithm are the associated rule files which also do not > appear in the paper itself. > > As the maintainer of codec, do you want to contact the authors about this > issue? > > Thomas > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
