Thomas Adam <tho...@xteddy.org> writes: > Hi all, > > A while ago, I was trying to contact Robert Nation to determine whether he > would be willing to relicence his files to the GPL. Unfortunately, I have > been unsuccessful in my attempts in finding an email address for him. > > I appreciate this was done in order to be more compliant with Github's T&Cs, > however, I believe this is perhaps a worthwhile exercise, regardless of that > point. > > I believe we should take an approach similar to that of OpenSSL[0] wherein > they made every effort to contact past authors[1]. It seems that even if did > not get a response, the licence change still went ahead. > > IANAL, so I cannot comment on this in that regard. However, it should be > noted that this approach did have lawyers behind it to begin with. > > Any thoughts?
Seems like a reasonable approach to me. Rob seems to have abandoned Fvwm or passed on. -- Dan Espen
