License rewrite (was Re: Ideas of gift :))

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ofset.org
Thu Dec 6 18:42:01 UTC 2007


tim Rowledge a écrit :
> 
> On 6-Dec-07, at 9:21 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>
>>
>> It takes time. In particular Craig's. Kudos to him, and we are hopeful 
>> to report more progress soon.
> 
> 
> I'll echo that; Craig has spent a lot of time working with SFLC and much 
> of the delay is due to them being busy. Since they're essentially giving 
> us something for free we cannot pressure them as one might if we were 
> paying.
> 
> If having the license finally sorted out is truly important to you - 
> anyone - then please offer assistance to help us get it solved sooner 
> rather than later. Offer to ferret out one or more of the missing 
> authors, or to rewrite some of the worrisome methods. It it is important 
> to your business, perhaps offering some bounty cash to others to do 
> rewrites might help.

Offering a bounty to boost the relicense, it is something I am 
discussing with the OFSET's treasurer.
An update regarding the situation will be helpful: which amount of code 
still need to be udpated, which code can be removed, which code can be 
directly relicensed because bellow 20 lines.

Hilaire




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