Re: Wine license change (fwd)


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Tue, 23 May 2000 21:28:37 +0200 (CEST)
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Date: 23 May 2000 19:29:12 +0200
From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@lrc.epfl.ch>
To: Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Subject: Re: Wine license change

Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it> writes:

> I am a member of the ddvelopment team of the ng-spice project. In these
> days we are discussing a probable change in the license of our software
> due to a possible collaboration with the original spice3 development
> group. I know that your team had a similar change in the wine license. I
> am interested in the procedure you used, since we have developers around
> the world that should approve this change in license.

Well, I simply asked on our mailing list that every developer send me
a mail stating whether he accepted the license. I didn't get a reply
from everybody, since some developers are no longer around, but I got
a fair number of them, and since all the replies I got were positive I
decided to proceed with the change.

Depending on how controversial the change is, you may want to go
further and chase down every single developer; in our case since the
change was mostly cosmetic I judged that I didn't need to do that. Of
course this opens the possibility that someone will someday show up
and complain, and in this case we will have to remove his code from
the tree; but I think the risk is small.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@lrc.epfl.ch


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