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Re: Permission to re-license contributions to Debathena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Apr 9 16:31:53 2013
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:31:40 -0400
Cc: Jessica B Hamrick <jhamrick@MIT.EDU>, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>,
Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>,
Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>, Xavid Pretzer <xavid@MIT.EDU>,
Gregory Nathan Price <price@MIT.EDU>, Greg Brockman <gdb@MIT.EDU>,
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To: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
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A desire for consistency and clarity, since the license text we use has a number of mutations, does not always correspond to a named license, and is generally a mess. The TLO also specifically recommends BSD (or GPL, which is why I gave you that checkbox too).
-Jon
On Apr 9, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Quentin Smith wrote:
> What is prompting this change?
>
> --Quentin
>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If you're receiving this message, you at some point contributed to Debathena.
>>
>> For any contributions you made which are currently licensed under one of the following licenses
>> - "MIT License" <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>
>> - "Expat License" <http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat>
>> - "X11 License" <http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:X11>
>> or any historical versions of those licenses, we would like your permission to re-license them under the BSD 3-clause license <http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause/>.
>>
>> Contributions made under other licenses are outside the scope of this e-mail.
>>
>> Please reply with one of the following:
>> __ You have permission to re-license any of my contributions (as described above) under the BSD 3-clause license.
>> __ You do not have blanket permission, but may ask me for each package you wish to re-license.
>> __ You may re-license my contributions (as described above) under GPLv2 only.
>> __ You may re-license my contributions (as described above) under GPLv3 only.
>> __ You may not re-license my contributions.
>>
>> A prompt reply would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan Reed
>> for the Athena Release Team
>>
