We are, in various ways. We should be able to say more later this year. :) On May 28, 2016 8:58 AM, "Alba Pompeo" wrote: > Nice! Is Google using musl now? > > On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Christopher Lane > wrote: > > 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 >