Hi, Small heads-up from my side!
Thanks to Francesco for coordinating, organizing and following up on the re-licensing effort! The process is very well structured!! Thanks also to everyone who gave a quick reply already! To everyone else, if you still have a mail regarding the copyright topic in your inbox, we would be glad to get a positive reply. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us!! Kind regards, Dominik On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 1:40 AM Francesco Pretto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello PoDoFo users, > > I think it's time already for a quick update on the status of the dual > licensing operation. Here is the list of people (most likely) holding > some copyrights on the library code: > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o6XRJowO_6nBnYZcgqu6YYp_UNS9x2qzYGUSMna6BXU/edit?usp=sharing > > So far ~40% of the people answered positively to the request. > Excluding me and Dominick it's 6 people that promptly answered in the > first 24 hours. All the yellow marked people were sent an email to an > address that didn't bounce with errors (you can find attached the > template that was used for the email). Some may be dormant recipients, > but let's wait a bit before sending reminders or try to find other > addresses. > > We also have a couple of missing contacts: > - Reinhard Mitteregger: the old email address is deactivated was on > the domain on Michelic&Partner, a company that should be closed now. > Waiting for connection by other means; > - Palmer Zent: this case is more interesting. The old email was a > deactivated @gmail.com address, and so it is his user "pzent" on > sourceforge. The only relevant matches for this user are related to > PoDoFo. I don't want to speculate, so I will simply ask: do you know > him/can you provide a contact (also privately)? > > As a last note: Dominik doesn't have any statistics related to this ML > as they are not available anymore in SF.net, and recently it has been > quite silent. There may be no more than 10 people still reading it, > who knows? If you have something to say, please do :) . > > Cheers, > Francesco > > > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 at 00:49, Francesco Pretto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear PoDoFo users/maintainers, > > > > I just wanted to inform you that, together with Dominik, we resumed > > the effort begun in 2022 to dual license[1] the PoDoFo code to > > LGPL2+/MPL-2.0. We have identified around 20 people who most likely > > hold some copyright on the library code. Other contributors' code got > > rewritten, or their contributions were too small. We will disclose > > more about the process once it is at a more advanced stage. > > > > Anyone on the copyright holders list will soon receive an email. > > Please understand if the tone is a bit formal and impersonal. > > > > Cheers, > > Francesco > > > > [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/mailman/message/37746122/ > _______________________________________________ > Podofo-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users >
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