On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:01:52PM +0000, John McNamara wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Mike O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:00:06PM +0000, John McNamara wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jan Dittberner <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:54:25PM +0000, John McNamara wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Jan Dittberner <[email protected] > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Bitmap.py contains a verbatim copy of a diagram and code from the > > > > Perl code > > > > > and > > > > > is subject to the terms of either the Artistic License, the GPL > > or > > > > both. I > > > > > think only the author of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel may allow the > > > > distribution > > > > > with your BSD licensed sources. > > > > > > > > > > As the author of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel you have my full permission > > to > > > > > distribute any derived code in Pyexcelerator under the BSD or any > > other > > > > > appropriate opensource license. > > > > > > > > Hi John, > > > > > > > > thanks for this permission. > > > > > > > > Is this permission granted only to us (Debian) and pyExelerator/xwlt or > > to > > > > everyone? > > > > > > > > Such a permission will be required to meet the criteria of the DFSG > > (Debian > > > > Free Software Guidelines) [1]. > > > > > > > > [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Jan, > > > > > > Permission is granted to anyone participating in an open source > > initiative > > > and that certainly includes Debian and the others CC on this mail. > > > > > > John. > > > -- > > > > John, > > > > Thanks for your responsiveness. I'm sorry, I'm sure it sounds like we > > are becoming annoying with this, however, if permission is only granted > > to people participating in an open source initiative, or only granted to > > debian, that isn't going to work for us in this case (Beceuase of > > sections 5,6,8 of the DFSG mentioned above). What we'd really need > > would be permission for ANYONE to be able to distribute the software > > under these new license terms. > > > > > Hi, > > No problem, I understand that you have to be precise about these things. > > In which case I grant permission to *anyone* to use the code derived from > Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. > > If that isn't sufficient then just agree a wording that you would all be > happy with and I will give my blessing to it. > > John. > --
John, Thanks again. I'm satisfied for now, however it would be helpful if in future releases of the software, you made this change in the licensing explicit in the tarball. stew
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