Dear Martin, Thank you for agreeing to the licensing. I have added your name to the copyright notice of the code:
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/relax/branches/relax_disp/lib/dispersion/ns_2site_expanded.py?revision=20480&content-type=text%2Fplain&pathrev=20480 http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax/branches/relax_disp/lib/dispersion/ns_2site_expanded.py?revision=20480&view=markup&pathrev=20480 Cheers, Edward On 29 July 2013 19:21, Tollinger, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Edward, > > Indeed, the maple code was initially written by Nikolai in 2000 or 2001 and > as far as I remember be debugged it together, so my contribution is minor. > > However, I am glad to state: > > "I agree to licence my contributions to the code in the file > https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404 attached to > https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, > version three or higher. My copyright covers the years 2000-2001." > > Best, > > Martin > > > ……….. > Dr. Martin Tollinger > Center of Molecular Biosciences (CMBI) & > Institute of Organic Chemistry > LFU University of Innsbruck, Austria > http://tollinger.spinrelax.at > > On Jul 29, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Edward d'Auvergne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Martin and Nikolai, > > I'm sorry I didn't contact you earlier. I have only recently realised > that you may own the copyright on code which has recently been > incorporated into the program relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com). This > is the Python code from Paul Schanda, Mathilde Lescanne, and Dominique > Marion which appears to have its origins in Matlab code you developed > back in 2005 and earlier. I have described in full detail how relax > uses this code in a public mailing list message to Nikolai at: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.devel/4268/focus=4270 > > I was wondering if you would be able to detail the origins and history > of your code? > > For relax to be able to legally incorporate the code, a copyright > licence from all authors is required (as well as which years the code > was developed, for the copyright notice). relax is an open source > software project which relies on the GPLv3+ licence (the GNU General > Public Licence). You can see an example of the copyright notice at > the top of this file: > > http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/relax/branches/relax_disp/lib/dispersion/ns_2site_expanded.py?revision=20464&content-type=text%2Fplain&pathrev=20478 > > Some of the contents of that file might be familiar. As long as you > are ok with this, I would like to have your permission to use this > code. It requires a statement to one of the relax public mailing > lists, such as this one, similar to: > > "I agree to licence my contributions to the code in the file > https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404 attached to > https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, > version three or higher. My copyright covers the years 200?-2005." > > I would assume that your are familiar with the Matlab contents of that > sim_all.tar file. For reference, the GPL licence is explained in > detail at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. The copyright licence > allows the code to be used in relax for ever - the GPL licence to the > code in relax can never be revoked. But you own the copyright to your > code - it is not a copyright transfer. So you are free license your > code as you wish in the future, or to do as you like with it. But you > cannot re-license the code that is located within relax or revoke the > licence. This is the standard protection for open source projects. > If you are happy with this, then please respond to this message with > text similar to the above statement (it can be copied and modified). > This will allow the code to remain in relax and allow Paul and > Dominique to expand on their changes and improvements to your code > within relax for their own benefit. It also allows other relax > developers to expand on the code. I will then add your names with the > dates to the copyright notices in the relevant files in relax. You > might be able to identify your code in the files at > http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax/branches/relax_disp/lib/dispersion/?pathrev=20478. > You are also free to give suggestions as to how you should be > acknowledged in the relax user manual (temporarily at > http://download.gna.org/relax/manual/relax_disp_manual.pdf). If you > do not agree, I can remove all of the affected code from relax. > > Thank you, > > Edward > > > > On 29 July 2013 11:46, Paul Schanda <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Edward, > > I am willing to licence the contents of the sim_all.tar file (located at > https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404) and attached to the task > https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, version > three or higher. > The code was originally set up in Matlab format by Martin Tollinger and > Nikolai Skrynnikov. Nikolai has just recently sent a message where he > authorizes that the code (based on his Matlab code) gets released. Martin > will do so very soon, too, as he told me. > > I believe that the modifications that I did on the code date back to > 2010-2013, so these are the years to be written in the copyright section. > Martin and Nikolai had set up the code earlier, and as the file dates are > 2005, this is presumably the date where the code was written. > They will give you more precise information about the dates. > > Paul > > > > On 29.07.13 09:20, Edward d'Auvergne wrote: > > > Hi Paul, > > I would like to incorporate the numeric and Trott & Palmer R1rho > models from your code in the sim_all.tar file. But for this to be > legally possible, you need to release your code under an appropriate > licence. You permanently own the copyright on this Matlab code but, > for it to be used in relax, you must say that you release the code > under the GPLv3+ licence. And you need to give the years you > developed the code. You could do this by responding to this email, > making sure it goes to the mailing list. An email to a archived > public mailing list is a sufficient legal instrument. > > You need to say that you are willing to licence the contents of the > sim_all.tar file (located at > https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404) and attached to > the task https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public > Licence, version three or higher. You must also give the dates that > your copyrights are for. I can see that the date on all files is > 2005, but you may have started this a few years before that date. You > can copy and paste some of this message for your email. > > Cheers, > > Edward > > > > -- > Paul Schanda, Ph.D. > Biomolecular NMR group > Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel (IBS) > 41, rue Jules Horowitz > F-38027 Grenoble > France > +33 438 78 95 55 > [email protected] > http://www.ibs.fr/groups/biomolecular-nmr-spectroscopy?lang=en > > _______________________________________________ relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com) This is the relax-devel mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, visit the list information page at https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-devel
