Greetings, On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 01:51:31AM +0200, Michael Ole Olsen wrote:
Contacting copyright holder and asking them to release under GPL or such is not a bad idea. even if they say no they might consider it in the future.
Even better, in my experience, if the mail introducing the problem is well conceived, the authors are generally favourable. Especially if they did not license their software at all. Recently it took me one single mail to go from a proprietary license state to a GPL3+ licensed state. I usually offer two licenses as examples, even providing a short explanation of the choice between "permissive" (BSD-3-clause) and "restrictive" (GPL3). All of this also applies to documentation (and is part of my experience). Usually, making authors switch from the almost automatic "All rights reserved" motto to GPL (or similar) is not unfeasible. Cheers, Filippo -- Filippo Rusconi, PhD - public crypto key 7694CF42@ pgp.mit.edu Researcher at CNRS and Debian Developer <lopi...@debian.org> Author of ``massXpert'' at http://www.massxpert.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141009085327.GC3136@licorne
