From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Franz Schrober Subject: [PATCHv2 0/5] sparse: Relicense from non-dfsg-free OSL 1.1 to MIT license Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:16:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1385633782-775-1-git-send-email-franzschrober@gmail.com> Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f42.google.com ([209.85.214.42]:44902 "EHLO mail-bk0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752667Ab3K1KQu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:16:50 -0500 Received: by mail-bk0-f42.google.com with SMTP id w11so3763022bkz.29 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 02:16:49 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org Cc: jw+debian@jameswestby.net, sparse@chrisli.org, franzschrober@gmail.com Hi, many different people (especially Dan Carpenter) worked quite hard to contact all people with significant contributions. The two changes are the ones which should change the license from the problematic OSL[1] to the more liberal MIT license. The initial agreement was reached when Novafora (successor in interest to Transmeta Corporation) accepted such a license [2]. The commit provided by them is attached as "relicense.bundle" [3] and has to be unbundled+merged in the sparse repository before the following patches can be applied. The changes can also be pulled from git pull https://github.com/franzschrober/sparse.git master Btw. when somebody has to ask me in the future about a license change of these two patches: do whatever you want. They can be considered public domain. The change of this patchset compared to the first version are: * Benjamin Herrenschmidt and Chris Wedgwood were added to the Acked-by list because they've also agreed to the license change * Reverts for James Westby's contributions were added because it seems that he is the only person not agreeing to the license change (he was not reachable over social media or any of his email accounts) * An alternative patch for the implicit casting bug found James Westby was added [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Open_Software_License_.28OSL.29_v1.1 [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/328560/ [3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparse&m=138548610116314&w=2