From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9901 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: Proposed COPYRIGHT file changes to resolve "PD" issue Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:35:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20160413203511.GW21636@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20160411041445.GS21636@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460579737 3624 80.91.229.3 (13 Apr 2016 20:35:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 20:35:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com To: Christopher Lane Original-X-From: musl-return-9914-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Apr 13 22:35:36 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aqRVg-0003lR-7N for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:35:36 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 15662 invoked by uid 550); 13 Apr 2016 20:35:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 15641 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2016 20:35:30 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9901 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:57:06PM -0700, Christopher Lane wrote: > Rich, > > Our lawyers just got back to me: looks good to us. Thanks so much for all > the time spent on this. At one point you said you would check the list of contributors you wanted to get clarification from. Does the list I put in the proposed patch look complete to you? I tried to include port contributors who wrote significant new stuff for these files but not anyone who just made minor patches to existing files or just copied existing files with minimal/no changes from an existing port. Rich > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > > > After the previous discussions on the list, I spoke with one of > > Google's lawyers on the phone. It's taken me a while to follow up > > after that because I was away at ELC last week, but I think we have a > > good resolution as long as there are no objections. > > > > Where I was coming from was not wanting license crap to be an obstacle > > to adoption of musl (after all, that's why I relicensed from LGPL to > > MIT in the first place) but also not wanting to scrub my/our belief > > that some of these files are non-copyrightable or retroactively claim > > ownership of something we can't own. > > > > Where they were coming from was a context of dealing with courts > > wrongly (this is my opinion I'm injecting here) deeming interfaces to > > be copyrightable, and having to spend ridiculously disproportionate > > effort to determine if the license actually gives them permission to > > use all the code. > > > > While I don't really agree that they actually have cause for concern > > in musl's case, I do agree that the simple fact that the current text > > is causing concern means there's something wrong with it. A license > > should not make you have to stop and think about whether you can > > actually use the software, and certainly shouldn't necessitate 60+ > > message mailing list threads. > > > > The proposal we reached on the phone call was that I would try > > improving the previous patch to no longer make a statement about the > > copyrightability of the files in question, but to note that we > > expressed such a belief in the past. No new statement that we _do_ > > hold copyright over these files is made, but the grants of permission > > are made unconditionally (i.e. without any conditions like "if these > > files are found to be subject to copyright..."). > > > > How does this sound? See the attached patch for the specific wording > > proposed and let me know if you have constructive ideas for improving > > it. On our side, it's really the agreement of the contributors of the > > affected code (I have a draft list of them in the patch) that matters, > > but I'd welcome input from others too. Also, the patch itself has not > > been run by Google's side yet -- I'm doing this all in the open -- so > > there still may be further feedback/input from their side. > > > > Rich > > > > > > -- > kthxbai > :wq