Re: Migration of relax to GPL3. -- August 27, 2012 - 09:04

Hi,

You may have noticed through the commit messages or through the
release notes that, as of relax 2.1.0, the licence for relax has been
officially changed to GPLv3.  The only real effects will be better
international copyright protection, and that if someone writes
web-based UI and releases a web-server version of relax (that could be
as simple as a few weeks work by using the GUI as a template) they
will have to release the source code so it can be brought back into
the core of relax (to block the profiteering of years worth of work
carried out by others).

Regards,

Edward



On 19 June 2012 13:28, Gary Thompson <garyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> license move fine with me
>
> regards
> gary
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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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