[1472] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: Relicensing BarnOwl under the GPL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Glasser)
Thu Oct 29 18:17:00 2009
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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:38:11 -0700
From: David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Cc: aatharuv@mit.edu, adehnert@mit.edu, alexmv@mit.edu, andersk@mit.edu,
asedeno@mit.edu, austein@mit.edu, ctl@mit.edu, ecprice@mit.edu,
geofft@mit.edu, hartmans@mit.edu, kchen@mit.edu, price@mit.edu,
shadow@dementia.org, barnowl-dev@mit.edu, kretch@mit.edu,
nygren@mit.edu
ACK.
--dave
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Currently, BarnOwl is licensed under the Sleepycat license, because
> that is what owl was licensed as when we initially grabbed its
> code. Since then, kretch and nygren have relicensed the owl code under
> the GPL (version 3 or later), at our request. I would like to follow
> suit, and move all of BarnOwl to be available under the GPL.
>
> If you're in the To: list of this email, you have one or more commits
> in the BarnOwl git repository since we first imported the code from
> owl CVS. If you are willing to relicense your contributions under the
> GPLv3+, please let me know, either via Zephyr, email, or both. Once I
> get ACKs from everyone involved, I will make the appropriate licensing
> changes in the repository.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Nelson
>
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