On Sunday 14 June 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > So it is perfectly fine for those who holds the copyright on OpenOCD to > amend those rules they chose for it. But it better be done explicitly > (like, in written at the top of the COPYING file and in the > documentation)
And in *every* file's header. > or trying to enforce those rules in court could be > difficult otherwise. If, say, some evil company decided to grab the > OpenOCD code and sell it for big money, then any attempt at making that > company stop _could_ be dismissed simply because the GPL is not properly > enforced already anyway due to the libftd2xx issue being knowingly > ignored. > Now... who can make that call? Is there someone with code in OpenOCD > who is against such a relicensing? Not the right process. Every OpenOCD copyright holder must explicitly agree. Lack-of-NAK is not the same thing as agreement. They contributed under a particular legal agreement. They can agree to change it later. It can't be changed for them. Appended is a quickly-created list of such holders. There may be more. I just did a grep and trimmed out noise ... I think there were several nonstandard copyright notices. As a rule, re-licensing is so impractical that it's rarely done. I'll re-iterate my suggestion to merge the patch I sent ... it's not in the least bit likely that everyone in the appended list will agree before the 0.2.0 release ships in a few weeks. - Dave Anders Larsen Andrew Lunn Ben Dooks Benedikt Sauter Christopher Kilgour Clemens Hintze David Brownell David Parrish David T.L. Wong David Woodhouse digenius technology GmbH. Dimitar Dimitrov Dirk Behme Dominic Rath Duane Ellis egnite Software GmbH Free Software Foundation Georg Acher Gheorghe Guran Hongtao Zheng John McCarthy Juergen Stuber Kevin McGuire Kevlin Henney Lou Deluxe Magnus Lundin Marcel Wijlaars Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Marvell Semiconductors, Inc. Michael Ashton Michael Fischer Michael Schwingen Pat Thoyts Pavel Chromy Peter Hettkamp Red Hat, Inc. Richard Missenden Rick Altherr Rob Brown, Lou Deluxe Salvatore Sanfilippo Simon Qian Simtec Electronics SoftPLC Corporation Spencer Oliver Steve Bennett Steven J. Hill Thomas Gleixner unsik Kim Uwe Klein Vincent Palatin �yvind Harboe Zachary T Welch
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