Ok, let's do that as well
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Vic Lee <ll...@163.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
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