On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > As many of you are well aware, John Hunter has been the sole copyright > holder on matplotlib from the beginning. I'm sorry it's taken nearly a year > to do this (as can often happen in sad situations like this), but I think we > do need to address it going forward. > > I have a PR for this change in #2195. > > Heavily influenced by the IPython licensing, I propose to move us to a > shared copyright model, where authors retain copyright on their individual > contributions, but the code base as a whole belongs to the entire community > of contributors. This does not actually change the license from the BSD one > that we have had all along, so should have no impact on its usability in or > with other projects. I feel pretty strongly that this is the right > direction, as it reflects that matplotlib was and is a community project. > (And just to be clear, this is in no way an attempt to reduce John's credit > for the amazing work that he began).
+1 Not that I have any right to speak for him, but I suspect/imagine that he would have been totally on board with this plan, and I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that it hadn't happened before wasn't simply an oversight. Very happy to see you take this step, I think it's the right approach. Cheers, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
