Yup, I consent with relicensing. Cheers
pierky On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 14:52, Job Snijders <j...@instituut.net> wrote: > Dear all, > > Summary: The pmacct project is looking to relicense its code from the > current GPL license to a more liberal BSD-style license. > > A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to spend some face time with Paolo, > which allowed for in-depth discussion about pmacct's current trajectory > and bright future. We concluded it would be in the best interest of the > pmacct project to attempt to relicense all code under a more permissive > BSD-style license, for mainly two reasons: > > 1) Faced with our own mortality, it became clear that succession > planning is of paramount importance for this project's continued > success. We contemplated what happens in context of intellectual > property rights should one of pmacct's contributors pass away, and > realized potential heirs won't necessarily desire involvement in this > open source project, potentially hampering changes to intellectual > property policies in the project's future. > > 2) We suspect there are entities who violate the terms of pmacct's > current GPL license, but at the same time we don't wish to litigate. > Instead of getting infringers to change their behavior, relicensing > the project could be another way to resolve the potential for > conflict: we see benefits to removing rules we don't plan on > enforcing anyway. > > Going forward, the preferred license under which we encourge people to > contribute new work is a variant of the ISC license (also used by the > OpenBSD project). The license template (to be used in file headers) can > be found here: > > https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct/blob/master/LICENSE.template > > We need explicit approval from all contributors, and carefully keep > track of those agreements. If a contributor doesn't agree or answer, > we'll have to re-implement the contributed functionality or remove the > contribution from the code base. > > REQUEST TO THE PMACCT CONTRIBUTOR COMMUNITY > ------------------------------------------- > > If you have contributed to the pmacct project (your name may be listed > below), please consider a reply-all to this email expressing your > explicit consent (or disapproval) to change the license governing your > contributions to the pmacct project, to the following license: > > """ > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for > any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the > above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all > copies. > > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL > WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED > WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE > AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL > DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA > OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER > TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR > PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. > """ > > ------------------------------------------- > > The next action in this process will be to individually follow up with > all contributors who didn't respond to the above request. > > Once the relicensing effort has been completed, we'll tag the resulting > code base as pmacct version 2.0.0 and celebrate! Pmacct has many great > years ahead of itself; Paolo's enthusiasm to do so is evident in this > interview video :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqmOcMAtGDM > > Please feel free to raise any questions you may have on the > pmacct-discussion@pmacct.net list, or privately with me and/or Paolo. > > Kind regards, > > Job Snijders > > > DRAFT LIST OF KNOWN PMACCT AUTHORS (based on 'git shortlog -sen') > ================================================================= > > Commits Author <email> > 2921 Paolo Lucente <pa...@pmacct.net> > 52 Marc Sune <marcde...@gmail.com> > 20 Corentin Néau <corentin.n...@codethink.co.uk> > 17 Vincent Bernat <vinc...@bernat.im> > 14 Job Snijders <j...@instituut.net> > 12 Matthias Arnold <matthias.arn...@swisscom.com> > 9 Raphaël P. Barazzutti <raph...@barazzutti.net> > 9 Claudio Ortega <claudio.alberto.ort...@gmail.com> > 8 Jonas Jensen <jo...@semmle.com> > 8 Matthias Arnold <tbear...@users.noreply.github.com> > 8 Tim LaBerge <tlabe...@visi.com> > 7 Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> > 7 vittoriofoschi <vittorio.fos...@gmail.com> > 7 Camilo Cardona <cam...@ntt.net> > 5 Aaron Finney <aaron.fin...@openx.com> > 5 Vittorio Foschi <vittorio.fos...@gmail.com> > 4 vphatarp <vaibhav.phatarpe...@gmail.com> > 3 Alexander Brusilov <photo...@yandex.ru> > 3 Emil Palm <e...@x86.nu> > 3 Dusan Migra <dusan.mi...@edgeintelligence.com> > 3 Dan Berger <dber...@valvesoftware.com> > 3 Markus Weber <f...@uucp.de> > 2 Tim LaBerge <tlabe...@cisco.com> > 2 Guy Lowe <g...@gunk.gen.nz> > 2 Hidde van der Heide <hvanderhe...@nexuz.net> > 2 Jim Westfall <jwestf...@surrealistic.net> > 2 Lee Yongjae <setu...@gmail.com> > 2 Lennert Buytenhek <buyt...@wantstofly.org> > 2 Matthieu Texier <matth...@texier.tv> > 2 Miki Takata <mi...@nttv6.jp> > 2 Pierre Dubouilh <pldubou...@gmail.com> > 2 Tiago Gomes <tiago.go...@codethink.co.uk> > 2 Vadim Tk <gitcom...@m.vtk.one> > 3 Thomas Graf <tho...@graf3.net> > 1 Junpei YOSHINO <junpei.yosh...@gmail.com> > 1 root <r...@smokeping.celya.fr> > 1 Mehul Prajapati <mehulprajapati2...@gmail.com> > 1 Mike Jager <m...@mikej.net.nz> > 1 rouba002 <rouba...@gmail.com> > 1 Nimrod <nimr...@gmail.com> > 1 Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> > 1 Paweł Małachowski <pawel.malachow...@atendesoftware.pl> > 1 Pier Carlo Chiodi <pie...@pierky.com> > 1 rsolsn <3997743+rso...@users.noreply.github.com> > 1 Ivan F. Martinez <iva...@saisp.br> > 1 Raymond Russell <raym...@corvil.com> > 1 Rico29 <cedric.bassa...@gmail.com> > 1 Robert Wuttke <rob...@benocs.com> > 1 Seth N. Hetu <sh...@akamai.com> > 1 Arnold Matthias <tbear...@daisy63.bblab.ch> > 1 Guo-Wei Su <nansena...@gmail.com> > 1 Elisa Jasinska <el...@jasinska.de> > 1 Alexandros Couloumbis <a...@ozo.com> > 1 Davíð Steinn Geirsson <d...@sensa.is> > 1 David Higgs <hig...@users.noreply.github.com> > 1 Vyron Tsingaras <vyro...@vtsingaras.me> > 1 cozonac <radu.ang...@xindi.ro> > 1 Александр Шалаев <ashal...@ivi.ru> > 1 matthewsf <matusku...@gmail.com> > 1 Manuel Mendez <mmendez...@gmail.com> > 1 Marc Sune <m...@voltanet.io> > 1 Kunshchikov Vladimir <kunshchikov....@infotecs.ru> > 1 Marcos Marado <mindboosterno...@gmail.com> > 1 Jonas Gröger <jo...@huntun.de> > > _______________________________________________ > pmacct-discussion mailing list > http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
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