Re: Migration of relax to GPL3. -- June 08, 2011 - 12:32

Hi,

Thanks for the written permission.  It should avoid any future
problems.  Were you also interested in having an http://nmr-relax.com
email address?  Just say what you'd like at the front of @nmr-relax
dot com, and to which email address it should forward to.  I'm
guessing that would be the leeds email address?

Cheers,

Edward


On 8 June 2011 12:21, Gary Thompson <garyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 04:03 PM, Edward d'Auvergne wrote:
> > Dear relax developers,
> >
> > I am planning on moving the full relax code base from the GPL v2
> > licence to the new version 3.  Although the current licence allows
> > this to be automatically done, I would like to ask anyone with a
> > copyright notice in relax if they approve or disapprove of such a
> > move.  This will make no difference to how relax is currently
> > developed, distributed, and used.  There are two main reasons I would
> > like to make the change:
> >
> > - The first is for the better worldwide design of the licence.  The
> > GPL2 licence is more tailored for the US legal system, whereas GPL3
> > was designed more with a world audience in mind.
> >
> > - The second is web interfaces and a relax web service.  If a web
> > interface for relax is designed, in line with the GUI design, and
> > Gary's multi-processor code is used on a cluster for the back end,
> > then the person developing this could profit from relax without
> > contributing back.  As the code is not distributed, under the GPL2
> > they need not release their improvements to relax.  So all of our hard
> > work could be taken and somebody who did not do much would receive
> > credit and citations for it.
>
> i am quite happy with the change to the licensing ;-)
> > Most of the other licence differences are insignificant for relax.  If
> > you could respond, it would be much appreciated.  Cheers.
> >
> > Edward
> >
> >
> > P. S.  I would also like to ask again about http://nmr-relax.com email
> > addresses (x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx).  I asked a while ago
> > (https://mail.gna.org/public/relax-devel/2008-09/msg00004.html), but I
> > still have 97 free email addresses.  These are available to accepted
> > relax developers, and can be used to better filter relax emails from
> > the mailing lists, etc.  Just simply come up with an address (i.e.
> > edward att nmr-relax dott com) and tell me an email address to forward
> > to.
> >
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