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whipper-team / whipper-plugin-eaclogger

A plugin for whipper which provides EAC style log reports
ISC License
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Clarify License #9

Closed mnhauke closed 5 years ago

mnhauke commented 5 years ago

I would like to add the eaclogger plugin to the official openSUSE repositories but that's not possible without a licencing statement from upstream. Please add a LICENSE file to this repository. Thanks!

JoeLametta commented 5 years ago

This plugin was originally based upon RecursiveForest/morituri-whatcd (same applies to morituri-plugin-eaclogger), which itself is a fork of supermanvelo/morituri-whatcd. As those sources provide no license, I think I'm not allowed to license this plugin as I'd like to (ISC license). I've tried contacting @supermanvelo to clarify the situation but I've got no reply (no activity on GitHub since 2013). I think all the other contributors, after politely asking, won't oppose to a licensing text like this:

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2012 mustbenice <mustbenice@example.org>
 * Copyright (c) 2012, 2013 Velo Superman <supermanvelo@gmail.com>
 * Copyright (c) 2013 Torbjörn Lönnemark <tobbez@ryara.net>
 * Copyright (c) 2014, 2016 Samantha Baldwin <recursive.forest@gmail.com>
 * Copyright (c) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 JoeLametta <JoeLametta@users.noreply.github.com>
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
 * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
 * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
 * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
 * ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
 * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
 * ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 */

@mnhauke Let me know if I can do something else to solve this issue.

mnhauke commented 5 years ago

Looks good. Thanks for the clarification. Can you please include this paragraph as file LICENSE and make a new release?

JoeLametta commented 5 years ago

Can you please include this paragraph as file LICENSE and make a new release?

Unfortunately, as I've already written in my previous message, I think I'm not allowed to license it as I would like to without an explicit approval by @supermanvelo (the original author who seems to be inactive). If you have any suggestions to solve this issue, just let me know.

JoeLametta commented 5 years ago

I've got an idea: because of this https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLAndPlugins it may be possible that an "all rights reserved" license (no license) isn't allowed for morituri's/whipper's plugins because morituri is GPLv3+ licensed and its plugin mechanism, as it is now, requires the implementer to license the plugin with a license compatible with GPLv3+ (ISC license is compatible). Maybe after all I can license it as such! :wink:

JoeLametta commented 5 years ago

@mnhauke Done in v0.4.0! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: