Yes, and the changes were merged. On May 28, 2016 4:50 AM, "Alba Pompeo" wrote: > Was a resolution reached? > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:56 PM, George Kulakowski > wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > > > rofl0r is the only other contributor we found to have > made > > any changes to those files. > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:35 PM Rich Felker wrote: > >> > >> 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 >