Hi Marc, So why not do it the official way now? :) I suggest we make an official announcement on freerdp.com homepage saying that we are "in progress" of re-licensing the project to Apache-2.0, and encourage people to contact with us.
Vic On 03/11/2011 10:35 AM, Marc-André Moreau wrote: > Hi FreeRDP developers, > > So far, the license change has been smooth. I was worried at one point > that we wouldn't be able to reach Matthew Chapman to ask him permission, > but we managed to :P Someone on rdesktop-devel brought the attention > towards our license change yesterday, so we need to take the time now to > clarify things. I intended to do it before releasing 0.9, but this > "unofficial" announcement forces us to do it more quickly. It's not like > we weren't prepared to go all the way through anyway. > > I started a new page on the wiki to provide information regarding the > license change: > http://www.freerdp.com/wiki/doku.php?id=license_change > > It has been proposed on rdesktop-devel that we contact the Software > Freedom Law Center for advice regarding the matter. I will get in touch > with them soon and ask them to review our case. Ideally, we would have > an external entity review our code bases to identify potential copyright > violations, such that we can move forward and still sleep well at night. > It has been said many times: names in file headers do not accurately > represent all copyright holders. Some time will need to be put into > reviewing the FreeRDP code base to find unnamed code segments from > people that should be asked for their permission as well. > > I would expect code bits here and there to be found, but nothing so big > that it would make us reconsider the license change. I am looking more > into getting assurance that we can safely move forward, so that we don't > end up in a legal fight somewhere in the future. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Colocation vs. Managed Hosting > A question and answer guide to determining the best fit > for your organization - today and in the future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freerdp-devel mailing list > Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
