Martin Geisler wrote: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org> writes: > >> Benjamin Peterson writes: >> > 2010/7/7 Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>: >> > > Antoine Pitrou writes: >> > > >> > > > > http://selenic.com/hg/file/tip/mercurial/minirst.py >> > > > >> > > > Given that Mercurial is GPL, this is probably of no use to us, >> > > > unfortunately. > > I must admit that reading this felt strange somehow... that a piece of > open source code should be useless. But I understand what you mean :) > >> > > Given that Martin apparently is the only or main author, I don't >> > > see a problem as long as he's willing. >> > >> > And he hasn't assigned the copyright away. >> >> (Or that the assignment has an automatic author-use-ok clause like the >> standard FSF assignment does, etc.) > > We don't assign copyright in Mercurial, so this should be no problem. > This also meant that we had to contact about 300 guys when changing from > GPLv2 to GPLv2+. > >> Just ask Martin, there are too many possibilities here to worry about. >> If maybe we want it, and he is willing to contribute the parts he >> wrote to Python under Python's license, then we can worry about >> whether we really want it and about how much any required hoop-jumping >> will cost. > > I would be happy to relicense it under the Python license. >
I believe the ideal outcome, if it is possible, is for you to sign a contributor agreement. This will license your material to the PSF in such a way that we can release it under whatever license we deem necessary. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
