On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:43 AM, ellisonbg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fernando, > > I think we should move forward with a decision on this issue. Some things > under consideration: > > * Replace "Project Jupyter Team" by "Jupyter Contributors" in our > copyright notice in files. > * Move to an exact copy of the BSD license rather than one with subtle > changes. > > Jason has proposed using the version of the BSD license from the OSI: > > https://opensource.org/ > > I think you should make the call so we can move forward with things (or > not). > > If folks have concerns they have not voiced, please do so now :) > Correct, this is what I said in Jason's open PR ( https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterlab/pull/543): """ I'm happy to merge it, and I'm +1 on the changes. Even accepting a certain amount of legal ambiguity around the notion of "contributors" as a copyright holder, I think right now it's the best we have to communicate the more complex and nuanced mouthful of "everyone in the repo holds individual copyrights to their changes, and therefore the copyright of the whole repo is the sum total of those contributions, all of which are jointly licensed under the BSD terms..." It's also somewhat accepted community-wide, so I think it's the best we're going to get for now. We can't paralyze every step of our process until the Supreme Court gives us an opinion :) """ For reference, that PR already makes the changes listed by Brian above, which I think make sense (thanks Jason!). Even if a lot of the open source community --us included-- is using this notion of "collective copyright" that will not satisfy a legal scholar, I also don't think it's a completely unreasonable stance to take. For the sake of community input, I'll leave it open now and will merge tomorrow Friday if there's no *new* concerns raised. If so, please put them up on the PR itself. Cheers, f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAHAreOqYM1HRDqoBvNg2baLWTvxLRzsObTP%3Do6%3DXdmD0ycuGiA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
