[License-review] For Approval: libpng license, version 2.0

[Bruce Perens]

IMO the submitter needs a lawyer, and we're not it. The main question they
need to work out with the attorney is how they handle past developer's
rights. I suggest that they get approval from past developers and/or their
estates, publish for opposition to cover the people they don't have
explicit approval from, and change to some already-accepted and coherent
license. Having done that, their best path would probably be to choose one
approved license, and make everyone's lives easier. Getting this sort of
support from SFLC or SFC is a good suggestion, but acceptance by those
groups tends to take a long time. Finding other pro-bono help might be
appropriate.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:12 PM Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com> wrote:

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> *>>Subject:* Re: [License-review] For Approval: libpng license, version
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> >>When I looked at the Python license tangle, which was many years ago, I
> concluded that only the most recent license was actually applicable, and
> that the other licenses were inert but could not be removed because they
> themselves said they could not be, like so many DNA viruses -- they get
> copied when Python is but have no >>function at all.
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> If that is true in this case, then this isn’t really a request for an
> approval of a license, it is a request for an approval of header
> formatting.  The license he wants to use here, Boost, is already approved.
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