[1476] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: Relicensing BarnOwl under the GPL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Thu Oct 29 18:17:02 2009
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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 19:36:16 -0400
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
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ACK.
Greg
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:08:06PM -0400, Nelson Elhage 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
