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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Licensing and Copyright IssuesLicensing and Copyright Issues
From: ʎɹq <godeater_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:22:39 +0100 Hi all, Recently the IRC channel has been rather full of discussion around the current licensing of Rockbox (GPLV2 is how most people interpret it, but it *is* a little unclear), and whether or not we should move to GPLV3 in order to include code from other such projects (espeak is the primary example here). This brings up further interesting questions, not least of which is: If we want to move to GPLV3, we need the permission of all Copyright holders to the Rockbox source code in order to do so. So firstly, I'd like to ask all current (C) holders to make their feelings on the subject known. Secondly though, we have another problem. Many of you will be aware of the sad loss of HCl (Michiel van der Kolk) last year, his contribution to Rockbox is greatly missed. As a contributor, he of course had copyrighted code in the Rockbox tree (Rockboy leaps out as an example), but since he is no longer with us - he can't venture an opinion on the license issue. Most of us believe that his copyrights will have defaulted to a family member - but since his family has other problems on their plate at the moment - we also feel it would be tactless to approach them about it - at least for the near future. In that vein, myself and Bagder were wondering about whether or not we could assign our copyrights to an organisation, which would manage them in the unfortunate cases of any more of us passing away unexpectedly. This would both benefit Rockbox, since the copyright would still be held by someone who cares about the project, and also the families of those involved, since they wouldn't have to take care of something which they likely think extremely trivial. Bagder has already approach the SFLC (which BusyBox use), but they haven't come back to him, and so we might be forced to consider alternatives. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Anyway - that's it in a nutshell. So. Discuss! Bryan Received on 2007-09-11 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |