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COVESA / ifex

The Interface Exchange Framework. Tools for processing interface/API descriptions in different formats, including the IFEX core format. Some example files are at: https://github.com/COVESA/vehicle_service_catalog.
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Relicensing project to Apache License 2.0 #114

Open gunnar-mb opened 7 months ago

gunnar-mb commented 7 months ago

The default COVESA license is Mozilla Public License v 2.0 (MPLv2) because it provides a good balance between wide adoption and a copyleft effect that reduces risk of privatization of the code base by any party at a later time (see COVESA license policy).

There are however occasionally concerns when tools perform some sort of code-generation. There may be implementation choices that includes some part (or derivative thereof) of the tool source code in the generated result. Even if MPLv2 is generally considered a weak copyleft license, and seems unlikely to intend to have that effect on generated code, it is still desirable by some companies to see a permissive license for tools of this nature.

The Apache License v2.0 is a popular permissive license alternative, because of the other conditions that are included.

Therefore, the IFEX project is now exploring the possibility to relicense the project. This ticket tracks the progress.

gunnar-mb commented 7 months ago
erikbosch commented 7 months ago

Please check with Gerald Spreitz as he has done some similar investigation for other COVESA repos, and I guess it should be synched with at least COVESA technical Steering Team. As I understand it all contributors must agree to the license change. Could be feasible for ifex/vsc-tools as there are a limited set of contributors involved.

gunnar-mb commented 7 months ago

These are all the Author name/email of commits in the current master branch:

NOTE: To reduce email-harvesting for spam the "@" will be replaced by "##" here and in later comments.

Adrien Leravat Pixep##users.noreply.github.com Erik Jaegervall erik.jaegervall##se.bosch.com Gunnar Andersson gandersson##covesa.global Gunnar Andersson gandersson##genivi.org Gunnar Andersson gunnar.andersson##mercedes-benz.com Gunnar Andersson gunnar##nospam##novaspring.eu Gunnar Andersson gunnar##novaspring.eu Gunnar Andersson gunnar_dev##nospam##novaspring.eu MANUEBO manuel.boehm##mercedes-benz.com Magnus Feuer magnus##feuerworks.com Manu Kemppainen manu.kemppainen##bittium.com Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com Sebastien RAILLET sebastien.raillet##marelli.com Sven Walter waltersven##gmx.de dependabot[bot] 49699333+dependabot[bot]##users.noreply.github.com gunnarx gunnarx##users.noreply.github.com

Every contribution (each commit) will get individual approval for relicensing from the respective author or copyright-holder, and it will be documented here.

gunnar-mb commented 7 months ago

I personally approve the license change for all commits where Novaspring AB (@novaspring.eu) has copyright.

gunnar-mb commented 7 months ago

These two commits from Magnus Feuer are merge commits only, and therefore they do not add anything not covered by other commits already. The relicensing question will be handled with each original commit author. 1810ade Magnus Feuer magnus##feuerworks.com 667891f Magnus Feuer magnus##feuerworks.com

gunnar-mb commented 7 months ago

All commits done by Michael (Mikhail) Tsukerman (Tcukerman) using this author-address: miketsukerman##gmail.com and the following Sign-off address: <mikhail.tcukerman##daimler.com> were made during his employment at MBition GmbH, and the company owns the copyright. They will be relicensed dependent on permission from MBition GmbH.

38d28a9 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com 3fdd7e2 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com b176b03 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com 47cc325 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com 442c696 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com 7e03a24 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com ce29f9a Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com 46cb12b Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com f5cfeb2 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com 4f53efa Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com 65b527c Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com d45cfd6 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com cb58613 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com a918d9d Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com deb95e9 Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com 3b004df Michael Tsukerman miketsukerman##gmail.com

Each commit is also signed off by a second MBition employee: Signed-off-by: Magnus Feuer <magnus.feuer##mercedes-benz.com>

erikbosch commented 6 months ago

We had an internal discussion at Bosch. Concerning the Bosch contributions we are willing to accept a license change if COVESA TST approves/recommends a license change.