From solipsis at pitrou.net  Thu Apr  4 21:48:16 2013
From: solipsis at pitrou.net (Antoine Pitrou)
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:48:16 +0200
Subject: [Python-legal-sig] [Fwd: [python-committers] Relicensing source
 code for inclusion in Python]
Message-ID: <1365104896.5674.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>


Hello,

Forwarding this message for advice.

Thanks

Antoine.


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De: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
?: python-committers at python.org
Cc: psf at python.org
Sujet: [python-committers] Relicensing source code for inclusion in
Python
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:30:15 +0200 (CEST)

Hello,

In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85
implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so
I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their
informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.

My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to
validate the relicensing? If yes, what?

Thank you

Antoine.


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From mal at egenix.com  Thu Apr  4 22:04:00 2013
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:04:00 +0200
Subject: [Python-legal-sig] [Fwd: [python-committers] Relicensing source
 code for inclusion in Python]
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Message-ID: <515DDCB0.2020201@egenix.com>

On 04.04.2013 21:48, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Forwarding this message for advice.

I can only repeat what I already said on the committers list:

The contributors need to sign contrib agreements and add the
contribution note to the contributed file(s).

The contrib agreements allow the *PSF* to relicense the contributed
code, so there's no further action needed on behalf of the
contributors like e.g. dual licensing the code or changing the
license on existing distributions of the code.

The only requirement is that the contributors are legally
allowed to enter the contrib agreements, that is: they are
the authors and own the copyright. The latter may not necessarily
be the case if they wrote code during work hours.

Hope that helps,
-- 
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> Thanks
> 
> Antoine.
> 
> 
> -------- Message transf?r? --------
> De: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
> ?: python-committers at python.org
> Cc: psf at python.org
> Sujet: [python-committers] Relicensing source code for inclusion in
> Python
> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:30:15 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85
> implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so
> I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their
> informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
> 
> My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to
> validate the relicensing? If yes, what?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Antoine.
> 
> 
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