From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqMKa-00062S-Ty for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:13:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBP3DDYa029898; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:13:13 GMT Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz (gw.top-hosting.cz [81.0.254.91]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBP3B7tU019192 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:11:08 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC48CA74CCA for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 04:11:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.top-hosting.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19390-09 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 04:11:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from NOTORCOMP (21.217.broadband4.iol.cz [85.71.217.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E236A483C6 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 04:11:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 04:10:57 +0100 From: Jakub Moc X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1643775053.20051225041057@gentoo.org> To: Brian Harring Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue In-Reply-To: <20051225025114.GJ5796@nightcrawler.e-centre.net> References: <20051225025114.GJ5796@nightcrawler.e-centre.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="----------322825297BE8D3" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.3 (20050822) at top-hosting.cz X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.134 tagged_above=-999 required=6 tests=[AWL=-0.135, BAYES_50=0.001] X-Spam-Score: -0.134 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 7778f8ff-b3b8-45b2-b7a5-6bf3dda6cbcd X-Archives-Hash: 8b77aa92f9aa6a5afb9c2ec67bee77e9 ------------322825297BE8D3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0D=0A25.12.2005, 3:51:15, Brian Harring wrote: > Jakub responded in this thread about shipping a crap license... imo,=20 > that's not the issue. > The issue is that we would be knowingly violating a license (however=20 > horrid the license is). =20 > Two routes out of this- clean room reimplementation of the codec, or > someone manages to track down the original author and gets the code=20 > converted to a different license. Latter still is tricky, since any=20 > contributions to the project, you would need all authors to sign off=20 > on the new license- this is assuming the project doesn't do=20 > centralized copyright, and assuming people have actually contributed=20 > to it beyond original author. Not exactly what I meant. There's actually no (clear) license, the original one would apply to the original code, not to the patches submitted after it's been "re-licensed" under LGPL. Since upstream is dead, we can't ship the original code (leaving the question why we should do it at all aside), also we can't exactly find all the people who contributed the patches under LGPL, and there's no way to contribute the code back to upstream as the original license requires. Such code is a real "bargain" to commit :P Rewrite from scratch, that's what left here. So much you get if you start with a bullshit license originally and then go MIA. :/ --=20 Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:jakub@gentoo.org GPG signature: http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0= xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;) ------------322825297BE8D3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDrg3BhxfV/c66PZ4RAlBZAJ96tL4oiJelRZrdlyGg/RLfEYARmwCggg1n Jz2OYGrZJ1jUpcLAnR6T1jM= =qClx -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------322825297BE8D3-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list