[arch-releng] Licensing of the archiso repository under the terms of the GPL-3.0

erikrefner at vivaldi.net erikrefner at vivaldi.net
Fri Jun 5 08:07:07 UTC 2020


On 2020-06-05 05:21, Eli Schwartz via arch-releng wrote:
> On 5/29/20 6:39 PM, David Runge wrote:
>> Hello again,
>> 
>> as I'm obviously incapable of using e-mail at this time of day, I
>> apologize again for the inconvenience of getting this mail so many 
>> times
>> and hope that you'll answer *to this e-mail* instead of to the one to
>> arch-general.
>> 
>> Sorry again. I guess it is time to take a nap...
>> 
>> Best,
>> David
>> 
>> On 2020-05-30 00:22:18 (+0200), David Runge wrote:
>>> Hello to all,
>>> 
>>> I'm writing to you on a rather urgent note and I apologize if I may 
>>> have
>>> send this mail twice to some of you.
>>> 
>>> The archiso repository [1] does not declare its license and to remedy
>>> this situation I would like to license the code base under the terms 
>>> of
>>> the GPL-3.0-or-later [2].
>>> For this I have opened a ticket [3] and an accompanying merge request
>>> [4].
>>> However, I can not rightfully license the repository without full 
>>> consent of
>>> previous contributors, which is what this mail is all about.
>>> 
>>> Please respond to this e-mail with a positive affirmation. If you are
>>> not on this mailing list anymore and you have been put in CC I will 
>>> post
>>> your response to this mail to the mailing list for transparency.
>>> 
>>> I have extracted the list of direct contributors to the repository 
>>> (keep the
>>> dups ;-) ):
>>> 
>>> $ git log --format='%an <%ae>' | sort -u | sed 's,^,\t,'
>>> 
>>> Aaron Griffin <aaron at archlinux.org>
>>> Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
>>> Adam Purkrt <adam at purkrt.net>
>>> Charles <ce at vejnar.org>
>>> Charles Vejnar <ce at vejnar.org>
>>> Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
>>> Christopher Brannon <cmbrannon79 at gmail.com>
>>> Christopher Brannon <cmbrannon at cox.net>
>>> Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
>>> David Runge <dave at sleepmap.de>
>>> David Thurstenson <thurstylark at gmail.com>
>>> Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>
>>> Eli Schwartz via arch-releng <arch-releng at archlinux.org>
>>> Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at>
>>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at gmail.com>
>>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>
>>> Gerhard Brauer <gerbra at archlinux.de>
>>> Keshav P R <the.ridikulus.rat at gmail.com>
>>> Li-Yu Yu via arch-releng <arch-releng at archlinux.org>
>>> Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com>
>>> Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de>
>>> Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de>
>>> Sean Enck via arch-releng <arch-releng at archlinux.org>
>>> Simo Leone <leone.simo at gmail.com>
>>> Simo Leone <simo at archlinux.org>
>>> Steffen Bönigk <boenki at gmx.de>
>>> Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com>
>>> Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>
>>> chandan <cks071g2 at gmail.com>
>>> jamesm-sitegen <jamesm.sitegen at gmail.com>
>>> martindamianfernandez <martin.damian.fernandez at gmail.com>
>>> Øyvind Heggstad <heggstad at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> David
>>> 
>>> P.S.: I hereby confirm that I would like my work on archiso to be 
>>> licensed
>>> under the terms of the GPL-3.0 or any later version of the license.
> 
> I hereby confirm that I would like my work on archiso to be licensed
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
> Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your
> option) any later version.
> 
> Also thanks for doing this, because it in combination with other things
> nudged me into finally wrangling together the same thing for dbscripts
> (because I was lazy even though I've emailed people to start the
> process, back in December):
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2020-June/005375.html
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