Re: [Tinycc-devel] incorrect/missing license files

[Thomas Preud'homme]

Le dimanche 29 juin 2014, 23:57:08 grischka a écrit :
> Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> > It should yes. Grischka, Shinichiro, James: do you agree to relicense your
> > contributions to lib/libtcc1.c under the BSD variants in RELICENSING file?
> 
> Is not that what people listed in RELICENSING already did agree to?

That was the intent but the field File/feature is confusing. It feels as if 
only the specified file/feature is relicensed. That's how Daniel used this 
field 
and I don't see what other purpose would this file have. Therefore I recommend 
that you replace the value you put in this field by a *.

> 
> > If both of you answer yes, could you commit the change Grischka?
> 
> Change the FSF header in lib/libtcc1.c?  I'm not sure they would
> agree.  However it allows being linked into any program anyway.

Why would they have to agree? They are not author of this file. Only the author 
need to agree to such change, they are the one who decide what license 
applies. However, as Vincent suggested, it would be even better to put both 
GPL and BSD copyright notice, thus making the file dual licensed. It's not very 
useful as the BSD could be relicensed to GPL by doing some change but it 
doesn't hurt and gives more choice. Of course this only applies to old file, 
new one would just use BSD.

Best regards,

Thomas

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