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Ricordisamoa

8 Jun 2014 8 Jun '14

5:37 a.m.

I found this in the source code of scripts/reflinks.py: Distributed under the terms of the GPL This seems to be the single case in the whole repository. Is it compatible with our license conventions? It even doesn't have a full GNU-style license header.

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Amir Ladsgroup

8 Jun 8 Jun

9:57 a.m.

IIRC NicDumZ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NicDumZ> was the original writer of the code, I send them an e-mail about this Best On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Ricordisamoa <ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org> wrote:

I found this in the source code of scripts/reflinks.py: Distributed under the terms of the GPL This seems to be the single case in the whole repository. Is it compatible with our license conventions? It even doesn't have a full GNU-style license header. _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l

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Nicolas Dumazet

9 Jun 9 Jun

10:02 a.m.

Hey folks, Sorry about that. I'd happily relicense the original code under whatever is convenient for you. If anyone contributed to the file in the meantime, I'm afraid you'd have to ask those guys for permission, too :(

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info＠gno.de

11:28 a.m.

----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Nicolas Dumazet <nicdumz(a)gmail.com> An: pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 09.06.2014 10:02 Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] reflinks.py under GPL?

Hey folks, Sorry about that. I'd happily relicense the original code under whatever is convenient for you. If anyone contributed to the file in the meantime, I'm afraid you'd have to ask those guys for permission, too :(

We had 18 authors contributing to this code. Either we keep it as it is or we could double licence the code from now on. Greetings xqt

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Ricordisamoa

12 Jun 12 Jun

1:48 a.m.

I love the GPL /per se/, but I hate license conflicts. IMHO we should send an email to each author. Il 09/06/2014 11:28, xqt ha scritto:

Hey folks, Sorry about that. I'd happily relicense the original code under whatever is convenient for you. If anyone contributed to the file in the meantime, I'm afraid you'd have to ask those guys for permission, too :(

We had 18 authors contributing to this code. Either we keep it as it is or we could double licence the code from now on. Greetings xqt

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Tom Morris

3:36 a.m.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Ricordisamoa <ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org> wrote:

I love the GPL *per se*, but I hate license conflicts. IMHO we should send an email to each author. Il 09/06/2014 11:28, xqt ha scritto: We had 18 authors contributing to this code. Either we keep it as it is or we could double licence the code from now on.

You can't double license with a non-GPL compatible (ie a less restrictive) license unless all the original authors agree to change the terms that they licensed under and grant more permissive license terms. Tom

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Antoine Musso

9:08 p.m.

Le 12/06/2014 01:48, Ricordisamoa a écrit :

I love the GPL /per se/, but I hate license conflicts. IMHO we should send an email to each author.

The way I have seen it done in the past is to propose a patch, have all past authors added as a reviewers and mass mail them until they each vote +1. The resulting votes are then saved in Gerrit review notes upon merging. Good luck on reaching out with all the authors! -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Ricordisamoa

13 Jun 13 Jun

1:19 a.m.

That is exactly what I was going to do ;-) Il 12/06/2014 21:08, Antoine Musso ha scritto:

Le 12/06/2014 01:48, Ricordisamoa a écrit :

I love the GPL /per se/, but I hate license conflicts. IMHO we should send an email to each author.

The way I have seen it done in the past is to propose a patch, have all past authors added as a reviewers and mass mail them until they each vote +1. The resulting votes are then saved in Gerrit review notes upon merging. Good luck on reaching out with all the authors!

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Ricordisamoa

2:10 a.m.

Please sign off a Code-Review+1 for gerrit:139294 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/139294/>. Thanks in advance. Il 09/06/2014 10:02, Nicolas Dumazet ha scritto:

Hey folks, Sorry about that. I'd happily relicense the original code under whatever is convenient for you. If anyone contributed to the file in the meantime, I'm afraid you'd have to ask those guys for permission, too :(

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John Mark Vandenberg

1 Aug 1 Aug

2:57 a.m.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Ricordisamoa <ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org> wrote:

Please sign off a Code-Review+1 for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/139294/. Thanks in advance. Il 09/06/2014 10:02, Nicolas Dumazet ha scritto: Hey folks, Sorry about that. I'd happily relicense the original code under whatever is convenient for you. If anyone contributed to the file in the meantime, I'm afraid you'd have to ask those guys for permission, too :(

I think we are waiting for +1's from Shi Zhao and Mayank Madan, CC:d. -- John Vandenberg

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Liangent

11:16 a.m.

cc'ing shizhao. On Aug 1, 2014 8:58 AM, "John Mark Vandenberg" <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Ricordisamoa <ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org> wrote:

Please sign off a Code-Review+1 for

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/139294/.

Thanks in advance. Il 09/06/2014 10:02, Nicolas Dumazet ha scritto: Hey folks, Sorry about that. I'd happily relicense the original code under whatever

is

convenient for you. If anyone contributed to the file in the meantime, I'm afraid you'd have

to

ask those guys for permission, too :(

I think we are waiting for +1's from Shi Zhao and Mayank Madan, CC:d. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l

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