On 2014-09-18 14:13+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > I've completely reformatted the debian copyright file (using the new > machine readable format) and done some grepping for rogue files. I've > attached a copy and I think this identified all the non-LGPL files ( > parts of files) apart from the additional libraries shipped in lib > (which I also need to deal with and have an outstanding bug report). > > This list might be useful more generally. It would be great if we > could tidy up the odd license files for consistency. In particular > whether examples are GPL or LGPL is a bit random.
Because PLplot has always been advertised as LGPL with a few minor exceptions, I suspect a large fraction of the GPL licensing was not deliberate, but simply an oversight. Getting all those instances changed to LGPL would be an excellent goal just to improve our licensing consistency, but it does require contacting all the copyright holders and getting their permission for the change. To get that process started, would all active developers here agree to changing the licensing to LGPL2+, i.e., the exactly licensing conditions that appear in COPYING.LIB for all PLplot files where they hold copyright and which are currently licensed under some form of LGPL that is not LGPL2+ or licensed under some form of GPL? I certainly give my own permission for such licensing changes (assuming all other copyright holders for the files in question agree), and my hope (to improve our licensing consistency) is that all other core developers here will explicitly state the same in a reply to this e-mail. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
