From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: Re: Sparse licensing Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:08:05 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20090702214349.GA19009@feather> <4A4D3468.1010202@garzik.org> <20090702230836.GI19009@feather> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com ([209.85.216.182]:55568 "EHLO mail-px0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752297Ab0AUMIG (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:08:06 -0500 Received: by pxi12 with SMTP id 12so6519980pxi.33 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:08:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090702230836.GI19009@feather> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Josh Triplett Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, madcoder@debian.org, lool@dooz.org On 7/3/09, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Can you weigh in on the licensing threads, pretty please? That is >> still blocked on you, AFAIK. > > Sure. > > For my part, I'd *love* to see Sparse relicensed to something more > palatable. Ideally, I'd love to see Sparse become GPL-compatible. I'd > prefer a stronger copyleft over a weaker one. > > I have no problem with relicensing Sparse to any of the following > licenses, in rough order of preference: > > - GPL (v2 or v3, with or without "or any later version") > - LGPL (v2.1 or v3, with or without "or any later version") > - Either of the above with some kind of additional exception similar to > those used for GCC and related libraries. > - Any of the above dual-licensed with the OSL, if people care about > preserving that for some reason. Seems unnecessarily complex to do > so, though. > > I'd prefer not to see Sparse relicensed to something entirely > non-copyleft like the MIT license, but if the rest of the Sparse > community wants that for some reason, I won't stand in the way. > > If you need any more formal approval from me, please let me know. > > Thanks, > Josh Triplett > -- I'm not a lawyer or anything. Does this mean we're done? Can the Debian people move sparse out of non-free? Can I re-license smatch? I used the following command to find who might have to sign off. git log 1bcc92138dcdf718dc3e0c694565f56e669d6ee3 master | grep Author | cut -d : -f 2- | cut -d '<' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | less Here are the list of people with other 5 commits. Maybe you should need at least 10 to get a vote? 6 Blue Swirl 6 Kamil Dudka 6 Michael Stefaniuc 7 Alexey Dobriyan 7 Damien Lespiau 7 terra@gnome.org 8 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 8 Johannes Berg 9 Dave Olien 12 Pavel Roskin 16 Alexey Zaytsev 16 Oleg Nesterov 20 Luc Van Oostenryck 45 Alexander Viro 45 Jeff Garzik 69 Christopher Li 75 welinder@troll.com 124 Al Viro 195 Josh Triplett 1250 Linus Torvalds regards, dan carpenter