I consider my contributions so minor that i hereby give you all the power to relicense them as you please.
Stefan /trying to shorten possibly never-ending license debate :) Brett Henderson wrote: > I hate to bring this topic up because I don't know if I have the > necessary patience for it :-) > > Osmosis is currently GPL3. At one point I was going to use GPL2 or > later but the use of the Apache bzip2 implementation precludes that. > > The number of authors is fairly low at the moment so there is still a > chance to change the licence. > > At this point I'm wishing I'd just released it as public domain in the > first place. I don't intend to make money from it, I don't care what > people do with it, and the recent discussions on legal-talk have > convinced me that any gains that a copyleft licence might achieve are > dwarfed by the problems that licence compatibility causes. The use of > bzip2 libraries has already forced my hand in one direction, and it's > likely to only get worse. Osmosis is a piece of plumbing that is most > useful if it can be used anywhere. > > My motivation for creating osmosis in the first place was simply that my > day job no longer had a technical component and I wanted a hobby > software project to tinker with. It quickly grew into a bigger time > sink than I originally planned but my reasons for involvement are still > that it is a hobby. I get more satisfaction out of seeing people using > something I've built than I do out of any recognition for being the > author. At this point my time is becoming more limited so I see my role > becoming less central but I'd like to make sure that everything > including the licence status is robust before I drop anything. > > So, what are people's thoughts? There are approximately half a dozen > contributors so far who I can mail separately if required (or name them > on this list, not sure what the etiquette is here). With one exception > (initial 0.6 support) most patches have been fairly self contained and > could be replaceable if required. If there's no major arguments I'll > send the existing authors an email over the next few days asking > permission to release all software as public domain. If that goes > smoothly then the existing licence text can be removed and replaced with > a public domain dedication statement of some kind. > > Brett > > > _______________________________________________ > osmosis-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmosis-dev >
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