Hi Peter,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Peter Åstrand <astr...@cendio.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Marc-André Moreau wrote:
>
> A lot of code in FreeRDP has been rewritten, but yes, there are some parts
>> of code left from rdesktop. I have asked all the
>> FreeRDP contributors + rdesktop contributors that had their code in
>> FreeRDP. The largest portions of code carried from
>> rdesktop were from Matthew Chapman. It was hard to get in touch with him,
>> but I managed to and he agreed to relicense his
>> code. Other people that have code licensed in rdesktop that I got their
>> agreement were Jay and Jeroen. Obviously, I had to
>> get the agreement from all the FreeRDP contributors. If you feel you've
>> been forgotten, please tell us so, we haven't
>> released 0.9 yet.
>>
>
> Well, Cendio has not agreed to this license change. If you think that all
> of our code has been replaced, why are Cendio developers still listed in the
> AUTHORS file? Assuming that the GIT version is the correct one...
>
Let me clarify the situation: we are "pretty much done" with the license
change, but there might be some bits here and there that we need to clear
before releasing 0.9 officially as Apache License 2.0. As for the AUTHORS
file, we will remove your names once we make sure none of your code is
left.
>
> A quick check indicates that there are indeed code left from us. Two
> examples:
>
> * The RDPSND recording support (rdpsnd_flush_record etc). rdpsnd.c even
> still carries this copyright notice:
>
> Copyright 2006-2008 Pierre Ossman <oss...@cendio.se> for Cendio AB
>
> And the license header still claims GPL!
>
Actually, rdpsnd.c is not even used any more. One of our developers reported
this unused file just a few days ago: http://tinyurl.com/4wbhnvm
Since we're not using it, it is just a leftover that we will remove.
>
>
> * mwm_hide_decorations() was written by me, it has obviously been copied.
>
Ok, we'll fix this.
>
>
> There are likely much more code. I've been submitting code to the rdesktop
> project for more than 8 years. In total, I've done 512 commits. Pierre has
> done another 62 and Erik Forsberg has done another 76. Out of the total
> number of commits (1304), this is exactly 50%. Even if you rewrite every
> single line that we have comitted, I think one can argue that FreeRDP is
> based on our copyrighted code. IANAL and I haven't checked with our lawyer,
> but too me it seems impossible to relicense rdesktop without our approval.
>
Not if we either get rid of all your submissions, or rewrite them. I
encourage you to go ahead and verify that nothing you can claim yours is
left in our code base, we will willingly respect your right as copyright
holder.
>
>
> Rgds, ---
>
> Peter Åstrand ThinLinc Chief Developer
> Cendio AB http://www.cendio.com
> Wallenbergs gata 4
> 583 30 Linköping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00
>
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