search

gopherdata / gophernotes

The Go kernel for Jupyter notebooks and nteract.
MIT License
3.82k stars 265 forks source link

license: revert to MIT #126

Closed sbinet closed 6 years ago

sbinet commented 6 years ago

now that gomacro isn't LGPL anymore, couldn't we revert to the previous LICENCE (MIT) ?

@dwhitena @SpencerPark @cosmos72

sbinet commented 6 years ago

see: https://github.com/gopherdata/gophernotes/blob/e779a2a956d828c37b45081bd92b6ab52b0e88ed/LICENSE.md

cosmos72 commented 6 years ago

From the point of view of license compatibility, there are no obstacles - see for example what I wrote in #109.

I am a bit more perplexed by two other considerations:

  1. do I remember correctly that gophernotes contributors are expected to sign the Google CLA for their contributions to gophernotes ?
  2. only the copyright owner (or owners) can change the license. Licensees can only do so if the original license allows that - and LGPL does not allow relicensing as MIT. Who is (are) the copyright owner(s): all the contributors? Depends on the answer to question 1. ?
SpencerPark commented 6 years ago

I don't think everyone on the list signed the CLA, does this mean we need everyone to say ok before changing the license? https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570 seems to have been in the exact same situation we are in but luckily our list is a bit smaller.

Also many contributions were before the switch from MIT to LGPL, according to github's TOS my understanding is that those contributions are licensed under MIT which makes the list of people to track down even smaller.

SpencerPark commented 6 years ago

To kick this off I've put together a list of contributors since the new license. I think it should be fine for everyone to make a quick reply saying they give permission to license their contributions under MIT. IANAL so any expertise on the correct way to upgrade a license like this, are more than welcome!

If you don't want to license under MIT it would also be really helpful to suggest another license and/or motivation as to why not so we can come to an agreement. I also realize that not everyone on this list has contributed directly to the source code but contributions were made other places and so it would be great to collect the permissions regardless :)

Lastly I will write a short statement similar to what they are doing over at racket but if anyone has a suggestion on changing it, please do!

I give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes under the MIT license.

sbinet commented 6 years ago

Thanks for getting the ball rolling.

I give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes under the MIT license.

cosmos72 commented 6 years ago

Thanks for collecting the list of contributors @SpencerPark !

I give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes under the MIT license.

For clarity and completeness: I do not give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes dependencies under the MIT license, even if they are vendored (i.e. included with gophernotes in the vendor/ directory): each dependency (cosmos72/gomacro, peterh/liner...) has its own license already, and my contributions to them are under their respective licenses.

arfon commented 6 years ago

I give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes under the MIT license.

kortschak commented 6 years ago

I give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes under the MIT license.

takluyver commented 6 years ago

I give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes under the MIT license.

dwhitena commented 6 years ago

I give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes under the MIT license.

Looks like we are just waiting on @QuLogic. @QuLogic do you have any issues here?

QuLogic commented 6 years ago

Sorry for the delay; I forgot what I even did here...

I give permission to license my contributions to gophernotes under the MIT license.

sbinet commented 6 years ago

as everybody is in agreement, I've PR'd up: