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sr #104191: I want to change the license of my project

Submitter:  Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva <marcot>
Submitted:  Thu 12 May 2005 01:37:41 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Project webpages Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Done
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Beuc
Operating System:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Fri 27 May 2005 07:42:18 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Hi,

Although I disagree with your point (as I know proprietary versions of my software are no good to my end users, hence why I use copyleft), I added 'Public domain' as a new license and switched your project to it.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Thu 26 May 2005 02:10:22 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Sorry for taking so long to answer, I haven't seen the e-mail that warned me about your first message. I have already read these articles you have told me to read, and until some time ago I agreed with them and used GPL.

These days I was in a discussion about it and I thought that it was the same difference of Anarchism and comunism. For me, somebody that uses GPL think that this license IS the best, and forces everyone that make a derivated work to use it. And this is an impositive thing, such as the people dictartoship from comunism.

In this meantime I have searched about publishing things in public domain, and I have talked to lawyers, and they say that is just writing that it's public domain. I think this is the most free license I can use, and I don't want that my name keep going wherever my work is.

So, I have talked to Rafael Cunha Almeida, which is the other author, and we agreed to changing it to public domain, as it is right now. We would like you to change in the web-site, if it's possible.

Thank you for the links, they're very helpfull, but my earlier research in public domain talks louder in my mind.

Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva <marcot>
Wed 25 May 2005 09:35:39 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Ping? :)

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Thu 12 May 2005 09:10:57 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

First, did you read:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.html
?

You may also be interested in:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/x.html (the problem with X11)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html (some uses of copyleft)

Then please confirm if you still want to switch to a non-copyleft license.


You need the agreement of all contributing authors to make the change. Can you tell me if you have it?

By the way, beware that MIT has used many licenses for software and "MIT license" may be a confusing term (more info at http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html#X11License).


About public domain, most countries allow you to forsake your copyright (I think that's not possible in UK). There used to be something at http://www.primarilypublicdomain.org/ for it but apparently it's being reorganized. Note that when a work is in public domain, nobody has to even mention the original author.


This http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html also explains the principle of the LGPL.


If you need precise help on licensing you might want to contact -email is unavailable-

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Thu 12 May 2005 01:37:41 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

I've discussed with the other project developer and we got to the conclusion that we wanted to change the project license to MIT instead of GPL. The reason is philosophycal because we think that forcing the derivated work to be GPL is restrict too much the freedom of the users. We would like to change it to public domain if we could do so, but we don't know how to do it. We don't care (and we even prefer) if our names where not necessarily in the project. But as we must put them there, the best solution we found was the MIT license.

Can you change it in the project home page for me?

Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva <marcot>

 

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