...and it's done. I hope to get an answer from the SFLC soon. From what I've
been told on their IRC channel, my inquiry shouldn't go to /dev/null ;)
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Marc-André Moreau <
marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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