Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Panu Matilainen]

Closed #595 via #1518.

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Tom Callaway]

That said, this is him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willestes/

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Tom Callaway]

Unfortunately, as I have changed jobs, I no longer have access to the emails in 
my redhat.com account. While I am happy to swear to the accuracy of my 
statement above, I can not provide evidence to that fact.

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Panu Matilainen]

Hmm, ping?

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Florian Festi]

@spotrh : If you are not comfortable posting the mail from Mr Estes here you 
can also forward it to pmatilai or myself.

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Vincent Untz]

> Hmm? Commit 
> [9ba41db](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/9ba41db49f2f74465de1fa35e4b6127bc34c4106)
>  is from @vuntz, whose ack we seem to also be missing here. And then there's 
> commit 
> [e9c13c6](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/e9c13c6565cf4782d1f73255ee9144dd9bd2aca7)
>  from @pavlinamv .

No problem on my side for relicensing to MIT.

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Panu Matilainen]

Hmm? Commit 9ba41db is from @vuntz, whose ack we seem to also be missing here. 
And then there's commit e9c13c6565cf4782d1f73255ee9144dd9bd2aca7 from 
@pavlinamv .

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Florian Festi]

Ok, looks like this has stalled. 

@spotrh  can you please post the email from Mr Estes? I'll take care of the PR 
and everything else after that.

You might want to have a quick look at 9ba41db49f2f74465de1fa35e4b6127bc34c4106 
to check if we need permission from @pavlinamv but I guess that's not enough to 
be copy rightable.

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Panu Matilainen]

> If each of them are okay with relicensing this work under MIT, I would 
> recommend that this happen. I can make a PR if needed.

Seems we now have everybody's ack for the license change. @spotrh , a PR would 
be nice since you know the details best. And would actually feel more 
comfortable about accepting it after seeing Mr Estes email about the subject.


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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Per Øyvind Karlsen]

I'm fine with whatever

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Florian Festi]

Fine with me!

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Panu Matilainen]

Relicensing to MIT is fine by me too.

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Jindrich Novy]

I'm fine with MIT as well.

Jindrich

On 11/9/18 4:35 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
>
> Because I enjoy resolving 20 year old licensing issues... :)
>
> The existing license on find-lang.sh reads:
>
> |#findlang is copyright (c) 1998 by W. L. Estes  
> #Redistribution and use of this software are hereby permitted for any 
> #purpose as long as this notice and the above copyright notice remain 
> #in tact and are included with any redistribution of this file or any 
> #work based on this file. |
>
> This license, like many early FOSS licenses, is ambiguous about its 
> support for modification. It also does not carry any sort of warranty 
> disclaimer. I have reached out to Mr. Estes, who has given permission 
> via email for this work to be relicensed under a modern permissive 
> license, specifically, MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). I 
> can provide copies of this correspondence upon request. He has 
> clarified that permitting modification of this file was his original 
> intent, however, it is still worth changing this license to prevent 
> others from copying it elsewhere.
>
> In the twenty years or so that this code has been in RPM, the 
> following contributors seem to have made copyrightable contributions 
> to it:
>
> @proyvind  @pmatilai 
>  @scop  @ffesti 
>  @jnovy  @arekm 
> 
>
> If each of them are okay with relicensing this work under MIT, I would 
> recommend that this happen. I can make a PR if needed.
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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

I'm ok with relicensing to MIT.

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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Ville Skyttä]

- [x] @scop ok with relicensing under MIT

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[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Tom Callaway]

Because I enjoy resolving 20 year old licensing issues... :)

The existing license on find-lang.sh reads:

```
#findlang is copyright (c) 1998 by W. L. Estes 

#Redistribution and use of this software are hereby permitted for any
#purpose as long as this notice and the above copyright notice remain
#in tact and are included with any redistribution of this file or any
#work based on this file.
```

This license, like many early FOSS licenses, is ambiguous about its support for 
modification. It also does not carry any sort of warranty disclaimer. I have 
reached out to Mr. Estes, who has given permission via email for this work to 
be relicensed under a modern permissive license, specifically, MIT 
(https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). I can provide copies of this 
correspondence upon request. He has clarified that permitting modification of 
this file was his original intent, however, it is still worth changing this 
license to prevent others from copying it elsewhere.

In the twenty years or so that this code has been in RPM, the following 
contributors seem to have made copyrightable contributions to it:

@proyvind @pmatilai @scop @ffesti @jnovy @arekm 

If each of them are okay with relicensing this work under MIT, I would 
recommend that this happen. I can make a PR if needed.

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