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Re: Permission to re-license contributions to Debathena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Tue Apr 9 16:41:10 2013
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:40:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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>,
release-team@MIT.EDU
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You have permission to license any of my MIT, Expat, or X11 contributions
under the BSD 3-clause license. AIUI, this is a no-op in terms of what is
being granted.
--Quentin
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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
>>>
>
>
