Great, thanks! On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Fernando Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
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