Hello, I apologize for the delay in replying. I consent to relicensing any and all the contributions I have made to the pmacct project.
Regards, mikit > 2020/01/08 22:52、Job Snijders <[email protected]>のメール: > > 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 > [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> > 52 Marc Sune <[email protected]> > 20 Corentin Néau <[email protected]> > 17 Vincent Bernat <[email protected]> > 14 Job Snijders <[email protected]> > 12 Matthias Arnold <[email protected]> > 9 Raphaël P. Barazzutti <[email protected]> > 9 Claudio Ortega <[email protected]> > 8 Jonas Jensen <[email protected]> > 8 Matthias Arnold <[email protected]> > 8 Tim LaBerge <[email protected]> > 7 Jared Mauch <[email protected]> > 7 vittoriofoschi <[email protected]> > 7 Camilo Cardona <[email protected]> > 5 Aaron Finney <[email protected]> > 5 Vittorio Foschi <[email protected]> > 4 vphatarp <[email protected]> > 3 Alexander Brusilov <[email protected]> > 3 Emil Palm <[email protected]> > 3 Dusan Migra <[email protected]> > 3 Dan Berger <[email protected]> > 3 Markus Weber <[email protected]> > 2 Tim LaBerge <[email protected]> > 2 Guy Lowe <[email protected]> > 2 Hidde van der Heide <[email protected]> > 2 Jim Westfall <[email protected]> > 2 Lee Yongjae <[email protected]> > 2 Lennert Buytenhek <[email protected]> > 2 Matthieu Texier <[email protected]> > 2 Miki Takata <[email protected]> > 2 Pierre Dubouilh <[email protected]> > 2 Tiago Gomes <[email protected]> > 2 Vadim Tk <[email protected]> > 3 Thomas Graf <[email protected]> > 1 Junpei YOSHINO <[email protected]> > 1 root <[email protected]> > 1 Mehul Prajapati <[email protected]> > 1 Mike Jager <[email protected]> > 1 rouba002 <[email protected]> > 1 Nimrod <[email protected]> > 1 Jeroen Roovers <[email protected]> > 1 Paweł Małachowski <[email protected]> > 1 Pier Carlo Chiodi <[email protected]> > 1 rsolsn <[email protected]> > 1 Ivan F. 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