masneyb / gftp

gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based machines. 56 language translations available.
http://www.gftp.org
MIT License
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Change project LICENSE to MIT #133

Closed wdlkmpx closed 2 years ago

wdlkmpx commented 2 years ago

to avoid incompatibility with the licenses used by the OpenSSL project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

wdlkmpx commented 2 years ago

ref #130

Deleted relicensed code... gftp__dont_use_proxy.zip

Files with other (c) holders that must agree with the license change...

And someone who probably provided the most important fix:

Most other important contributions have been blurred or removed by my crazy changes, so I guess that's it...

hsn10 commented 2 years ago

I have no problems with MIT license

gusnan commented 2 years ago

I have only tiny contributions myself, but I think I might as well for completeness claim that I have no problems with changing license on my contributions (if any).

And also chime in and give a big thank you for making this (Handling licensing properly is the really boring part of free software development).

Thanks to all present and previous developers!

RocketMan commented 2 years ago

You have my support to make the license change.

@wdlkmpx thank you for this, and for all your contributions!!

wdlkmpx commented 2 years ago

I fixed the (C) years, I also added myself to a couple C files ... and the main LICENSE file

https://github.com/masneyb/gftp/compare/e685f7ef91690bd778fa7a140af4a86f41936a8e..0d410c05829da7fc64fe4470de133942662bac37

Revised relicensed deleted code: gftp__dont_use_proxy-MIT-2.c.zip

I'll try to restore FTP over HTTP Proxy support, change license to MIT, and then potentially delete it again haha https://github.com/masneyb/gftp/commit/9a5b095b2417880f7d972f2b0fefbc5732839676

I say this because the Proxy stuff is such an obscure topic, I had a hard time trying to figure out how to use gFTP with ftp.proxy (http://ftpproxy.org/), with HTTP proxy servers it becomes even more confusing, is it even possible now that HTTP has become a giant monster and FTP support has been removed from the main browsers? That is the question

masneyb commented 2 years ago

Looks good to me!

wdlkmpx commented 2 years ago

Ok everyone agrees with the change, that's great. It will happen soon.

We'll wait a few days for @sedwards explicit approval of this change (it's a given)

wdlkmpx commented 2 years ago

I renamed 3 files, I also retored the broken HTTP/HTTPS support. So I had to rebase