Re: [eigen] Contributor approval for the MPL2 relicensing (YOUR ACTION NEEDED)

[Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>]

2012/6/28 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2012/6/28 Christoph Hertzberg <chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On 28.06.2012 21:30, Benoit Jacob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Yes, I agree to have all the code that I contributed to Eigen
>>>> relicensed to the MPL2 license.
>>>
>>>
>>> (again)
>>>
>>> Does anyone keep track of who agreed/did not agree?
>>
>> This mailing list's archive does.
>>
>>>
>>> What about contributions you imported without author's involvement?
>>
>> We'll look at hg logs, and you do raise a good point about external
>> code imports, we'll have to be extra careful about contacting the
>> copyright holders. Hopefully, some grepping for copyright lines should
>> do the job, assuming that we've correctly preserved all the copyright
>> lines (and that all external code we have, had copyright lines, which
>> is less and less the case with the current thread of super-short
>> license headers in many projects).
>>
>>> Looking at the commit-history, Eigen2 is based on tvmet,
>>
>> Nope. The first attempt to start Eigen2 was based off tvmet, which is
>> why the first changeset in eigen logs is importing tvmet. However, I
>> soon decided to restart it from scratch and removed everything in this
>> changeset:
>>
>> changeset:   36:ec2fd5fc3e3e
>> user:        Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
>> date:        Sat Sep 01 10:47:07 2007 +0000
>> summary:     restart Eigen2 development from scratch.
>>
>>
>>> which is LGPL (I
>>> have no idea, how much remains of that are still in the code).
>>
>> None remains
>>
>>> Another thing are some of the Sparse decompositions which base on (L)GPL
>>> code (e.g. SparseCholesky.h). T.A. Davis is not mentioned in the credits
>>> section, btw.
>>
>> These, and others, do need to be carefully looked at.
>
> I guess we should contact the respective authors.
>
>>>
>>> And I think you should anounce these relicensing plans somewhere prominent
>>> at the homepage ...
>>
>> I had never seen a project announcing a relicensing plan on its
>> homepage before the relicensing is done, but that seems like a good
>> idea. Gael, is there a wiki page explaining how to add an announcement
>> on the wiki?
>
> This is explained at the end of:
>
> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Mercurial#Make_a_new_release

Thanks! That was easy. Done.

Benoit

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> gael
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>> Benoit
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