From 437accd81b67da4e729acdf7a20ed5c2fa644f45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillaume Desmottes Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:34:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add GOSSIP-RELICENSING.txt --- GOSSIP-RELICENSING.txt | 411 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 411 insertions(+) create mode 100644 GOSSIP-RELICENSING.txt diff --git a/GOSSIP-RELICENSING.txt b/GOSSIP-RELICENSING.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9b8db1ab --- /dev/null +++ b/GOSSIP-RELICENSING.txt @@ -0,0 +1,411 @@ +From sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk Tue Jun 15 16:28:08 2010 +Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: + sjoerd) with ESMTPSA id 0BEF66002FD +Received: by night.luon.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3C2161A21B; Tue, + 15 Jun 2010 16:28:08 +0100 (BST) +Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:28:08 +0100 +From: Sjoerd Simons +To: martyn@lanedo.com, micke@tinybird.com, richard@tinybird.com +Cc: Robert McQueen , Guillaume Desmottes +Subject: Telepathy logger, good old Gossip and licenses +Message-ID: <20100615152808.GA10311@night.luon.net> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +Content-Disposition: inline +User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) +X-Evolution-Source: imap://cassidy@mail.collabora.co.uk/ +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +Hey, + + Long time ago that i talked with most of you, hopefully you're all doing + well and are having fun with your current endeavours :) + + As a bit of background of why i'm mailing you all, we're building a logger + service for Telepathy. This allows any IM conversation done via telepathy + (whether it be in gnome shell, Empathy or whatever) to be automagically + logged. Part of this service will be a little library one can use for writing + log viewers. + + The current storage backend is based on the logging code from Empathy, which + in turn has its origins in Gossip. Which means the library needs has to be + GPL currently, which is not great for obvious reasons. Hence we were + wondering if there is a possibility to relicense this code to LGPL v2.1+ + + To be more specific we tracked the code down the follow files from Gossip: + libgossip/gossip-time.c: + Copyright: Imendio AB + Main Author is Richard with contributions from Mikael and Martyn + + libgossip/gossip-log.c: + Copyright: Imendio AB + No main author in the license header, code mostly written by Martyn + with contributions from Richard and Mikael + + So what it in the end comes down to is: would you be happy to relicense this + code such that we can use it under the LGPL v2.1+ and are you able to make + that decision on behalf of Imendio AB (which from a legal perspective own + the copyrights ttbomk) + + Sjoerd +-- +One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it. + +From martyn@lanedo.com Wed Jun 16 11:58:43 2010 +X-Greylist: delayed 434 seconds by postgrey-1.31 at bhuna; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 + 11:58:43 BST +Received: from lanedo.com (lanedo.com [85.214.136.179]) (using TLSv1 with + cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by + bhuna.collabora.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D42D600304; Wed, 16 Jun + 2010 11:58:43 +0100 (BST) +Received: from [192.168.0.2] + (host86-172-70-241.range86-172.btcentralplus.com [86.172.70.241]) + (Authenticated sender: martyn) by lanedo.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id + A40DC7F407C; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:51:26 +0200 (CEST) +Subject: Re: Telepathy logger, good old Gossip and licenses +From: Martyn Russell +To: Sjoerd Simons +Cc: micke@tinybird.com, richard@tinybird.com, Robert McQueen , Guillaume Desmottes +In-Reply-To: <20100615152808.GA10311@night.luon.net> +References: <20100615152808.GA10311@night.luon.net> +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" +Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:51:26 +0100 +Message-ID: <1276685486.1808.2.camel@petunia> +Mime-Version: 1.0 +X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 +X-Evolution-Source: imap://cassidy@mail.collabora.co.uk/ +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 16:28 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: +> Hey, + +Hi, + +> Long time ago that i talked with most of you, hopefully you're all doing +> well and are having fun with your current endeavours :) + +Certainly is :) + +> As a bit of background of why i'm mailing you all, we're building a logger +> service for Telepathy. This allows any IM conversation done via telepathy +> (whether it be in gnome shell, Empathy or whatever) to be automagically +> logged. Part of this service will be a little library one can use for writing +> log viewers. + +I see. + +> The current storage backend is based on the logging code from Empathy, which +> in turn has its origins in Gossip. Which means the library needs has to be +> GPL currently, which is not great for obvious reasons. Hence we were +> wondering if there is a possibility to relicense this code to LGPL v2.1+ +> +> To be more specific we tracked the code down the follow files from Gossip: +> libgossip/gossip-time.c: +> Copyright: Imendio AB +> Main Author is Richard with contributions from Mikael and Martyn +> +> libgossip/gossip-log.c: +> Copyright: Imendio AB +> No main author in the license header, code mostly written by Martyn +> with contributions from Richard and Mikael +> +> So what it in the end comes down to is: would you be happy to relicense this +> code such that we can use it under the LGPL v2.1+ and are you able to make +> that decision on behalf of Imendio AB (which from a legal perspective own +> the copyrights ttbomk) + +Absolutely fine by me. + +-- +Regards, +Martyn + + +From richard@tinybird.com Thu Jun 17 09:21:13 2010 +X-Greylist: delayed 331 seconds by postgrey-1.31 at bhuna; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 + 09:21:13 BST +Received: from mail.tinybird.com (static-212-247-165-146.cust.tele2.se + [212.247.165.146]) by bhuna.collabora.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id + F34FF6006C3; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:21:13 +0100 (BST) +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.tinybird.com + (Postfix) with ESMTP id 159649D8FC; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:15:42 +0200 (CEST) +X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tinybird.com +Received: from mail.tinybird.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost + (core.tinybird.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id + hqkRcJPolNBx; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:15:41 +0200 (CEST) +Received: from [192.168.50.6] (c80-216-159-112.bredband.comhem.se + [80.216.159.112]) by mail.tinybird.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id + A684F9D8F1; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:15:41 +0200 (CEST) +Subject: Re: Telepathy logger, good old Gossip and licenses +Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +From: Richard Hult +In-Reply-To: <20100615152808.GA10311@night.luon.net> +Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:15:40 +0200 +Cc: martyn@lanedo.com, micke@tinybird.com, Robert McQueen , Guillaume Desmottes +Message-Id: <53541F05-0D68-41C8-B0B2-E42B56B6D862@tinybird.com> +References: <20100615152808.GA10311@night.luon.net> +To: Sjoerd Simons +X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) +X-Evolution-Source: imap://cassidy@mail.collabora.co.uk/ +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +Hi Sjoerd, + +Long time no see :) Hope everything is fine! + +> To be more specific we tracked the code down the follow files from Gossip: +> libgossip/gossip-time.c: +> Copyright: Imendio AB +> Main Author is Richard with contributions from Mikael and Martyn +> +> libgossip/gossip-log.c: +> Copyright: Imendio AB +> No main author in the license header, code mostly written by Martyn +> with contributions from Richard and Mikael + +> So what it in the end comes down to is: would you be happy to relicense this +> code such that we can use it under the LGPL v2.1+ and are you able to make +> that decision on behalf of Imendio AB (which from a legal perspective own +> the copyrights ttbomk) + +Micke and I are fine with relicensing any Imendio and/or personally owned code in the mentioned files to LGPL v2.1+. I can make that decision on behalf of Imendio AB (now known as Tinybird Interactive AB). + +Cheers, +Richard + +-- +Tinybird Interactive - Inspiring Software + + +From guillaume.desmottes@collabora.co.uk Thu Jun 17 14:51:24 2010 +Subject: Relicensing of empathy-log-store-empathy to LPGL +From: Guillaume Desmottes +To: lars@metafoo.de, 84yelo3@gmail.com +Cc: Robert McQueen , Sjoerd Simons +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" +Message-ID: <1276779083.2456.12.camel@cass-x200s.lan> +Mime-Version: 1.0 +X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 +Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:51:24 +0200 +X-Evolution-Format: text/plain +X-Evolution-Account: 1171035114.6047.0@cass-lpt +X-Evolution-Transport: + smtp://cassidy;auth=PLAIN@mail.collabora.co.uk:587/;use_ssl=when-possible +X-Evolution-Fcc: mbox:/home/cassidy/.evolution/mail/local#Sent +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +Hi Nicolò, +Hi Lars-Peter, + +As a bit of background of why i'm mailing you all, we're building a +logger service for Telepathy. This allows any IM conversation done via +telepathy (whether it be in gnome shell, Empathy or whatever) to be +automagically logged. Part of this service will be a little library one +can use for writing log viewers. + +The current storage backend is based on the logging code from Empathy +which is currently GPL, which is not great for obvious reasons. Hence we +were wondering if there is a possibility to relicense this code to LGPL +v2.1+. + +Both of you contributed to empathy-log-store-empathy. Would you agree to +relicense your contributions to LGPL v2.1+ ? + +Nicolò: +http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=ee5227403193fe7b5dae7d5c15e33d8a9c385c3f + +Lars-Peter: +http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=ddae3ae13b1bf6368bd91327357e3c6999ac6a45 +http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=61226f8d9920b92dd5b2defa606efabde6367b2c + + +Regards, + + + + G. + + +From lars@metafoo.de Thu Jun 17 16:14:56 2010 +X-Greylist: delayed 562 seconds by postgrey-1.31 at bhuna; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 + 16:14:56 BST +Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de + (mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de [134.100.9.70]) (using TLSv1 with + cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) + by bhuna.collabora.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 241E66006C3; Thu, 17 Jun + 2010 16:14:56 +0100 (BST) +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by + mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43812668; Thu, + 17 Jun 2010 17:05:34 +0200 (CEST) +X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at informatik.uni-hamburg.de +Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de ([127.0.0.1]) by + localhost (mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, + port 10024) with LMTP id WhF0cb1qF-Gb; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:05:33 +0200 + (CEST) +Received: from [192.168.37.31] (port-91423.pppoe.wtnet.de [84.46.69.149]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not + present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: 7clausen) by + mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 97DE0667; Thu, + 17 Jun 2010 17:05:33 +0200 (CEST) +Message-ID: <4C1A39A4.8020701@metafoo.de> +Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:05:08 +0200 +From: Lars-Peter Clausen +User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100329) +MIME-Version: 1.0 +To: Guillaume Desmottes +CC: 84yelo3@gmail.com, Robert McQueen , Sjoerd Simons +Subject: Re: Relicensing of empathy-log-store-empathy to LPGL +References: <1276779083.2456.12.camel@cass-x200s.lan> +In-Reply-To: <1276779083.2456.12.camel@cass-x200s.lan> +X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 +X-Evolution-Source: imap://cassidy@mail.collabora.co.uk/ +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- +Hash: SHA1 + +Guillaume Desmottes wrote: +> Hi Nicolò, Hi Lars-Peter, +> +> [...] Both of you contributed to empathy-log-store-empathy. Would +> you agree to relicense your contributions to LGPL v2.1+ ? +> +> [...] +Hi + +Fine with me. + +- - Lars +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) +Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org + +iEYEARECAAYFAkwaOaMACgkQBX4mSR26RiM/dQCaAzquubkWKf3jx1CyIHghWhhQ +d6YAnRAKhP9uN+NnmhC94ayMr+BeCRul +=B059 +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- + + +From nicolo.chieffo@gmail.com Thu Jun 17 16:24:40 2010 +Received: from mail-wy0-f172.google.com (mail-wy0-f172.google.com + [74.125.82.172]) by bhuna.collabora.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id + A2E0F6006C3; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:24:40 +0100 (BST) +Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so27253wya.31 for ; + Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:24:38 -0700 (PDT) +DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; + h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received + :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id + :subject:to:cc:content-type; + bh=hmyX3rIMLanTFUJL3nCeh5iR1GDib6JXQiw+blZttN0=; 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charset=ISO-8859-1 +X-Evolution-Source: imap://cassidy@mail.collabora.co.uk/ +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +I'm not a license expert so I don't exactly know why GPL is not ok for +this log service. +So I just trust your decision. + +From guillaume.desmottes@collabora.co.uk Thu Jun 17 17:26:37 2010 +Subject: Re: Relicensing of empathy-log-store-empathy to LPGL +From: Guillaume Desmottes +To: Nicolo' Chieffo <84yelo3@gmail.com> +Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen , Robert McQueen , Sjoerd Simons +In-Reply-To: +References: <1276779083.2456.12.camel@cass-x200s.lan> + <4C1A39A4.8020701@metafoo.de> + +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" +Message-ID: <1276788396.2456.14.camel@cass-x200s.lan> +Mime-Version: 1.0 +X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 +Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:26:37 +0200 +X-Evolution-Format: text/plain +X-Evolution-Account: 1171035114.6047.0@cass-lpt +X-Evolution-Transport: + smtp://cassidy;auth=PLAIN@mail.collabora.co.uk:587/;use_ssl=when-possible +X-Evolution-Fcc: mbox:/home/cassidy/.evolution/mail/local#Sent +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +Le jeudi 17 juin 2010 à 17:17 +0200, Nicolo' Chieffo a écrit : +> I'm not a license expert so I don't exactly know why GPL is not ok for +> this log service. +> So I just trust your decision. + +We want libtelepathy-logger to be LGPL instead of GPL so non-GPL +application can link to it. +That's also a requirement for libraries in the GNOME platform. + + + + G. + +From nicolo.chieffo@gmail.com Thu Jun 17 16:27:58 2010 +Received: from mail-wy0-f172.google.com (mail-wy0-f172.google.com + [74.125.82.172]) by bhuna.collabora.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id + 86CF86006C3 for ; 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