Agreement to license change (from LGPL to MIT)

[GuillaumeGomez]

For the moment, here are the contributors who agreed to the change of license:

• oakes
• buster
• gkoz
• SimonSapin
• bpbp-boop
• dndanik
• Blei
• jgillich
• osa1
• frewsxcv
• steveklabnik
• gsingh93
• gekola
• TobiasBales
• ptersilie
• mathijshenquet

[gkoz]

I'll reconfirm it here for the record.
I agree with re-licensing my contribution(s) under an MIT license.

[bpbp-boop]

I give permission for all my work on rgtk to be re-licensed under an MIT license.

[dndanik]

I give my permission.

[Blei]

I agree with re-licensing my contribution(s) under an MIT license.

[jgillich]

I agree with re-licensing my contribution(s) under an MIT license.

Just because I'm curious, what are the reasons for this change? GTK+ is LGPL licensed, I think you still have to conform to its terms even if the bindings are MIT. But IANAL.

[GuillaumeGomez]

@jgillich: Mostly for the reasons given here.

[gkoz]

Just because I'm curious, what are the reasons for this change? GTK+ is LGPL licensed, I think you still have to conform to its terms even if the bindings are MIT.

We're only using the information from GTK's header files so this work isn't supposed to be infected by [L]GPL. We likely still are required to put the text of those licences into the repo and some notices.

[ptersilie]

MIT sounds good to me. Permission granted of course.

[GuillaumeGomez]

@ptersilie: thanks !

[gkoz]

It seems we're missing permission from @mathijshenquet

[mathijshenquet]

I agree to this change, and any other future changes the rgtk team would
like to make to the license.

Sorry for the late response

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 17:27 Gleb Kozyrev [email protected] wrote:

It seems we're missing permission from @mathijshenquet
https://github.com/mathijshenquet

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[gkoz]

Thank you, @mathijshenquet, this is a relief. :)

[GuillaumeGomez]

@mathijshenquet: it's been a while ! Hope you're doing fine. Thanks for your agreement !

[GuillaumeGomez]

Since everyone concerned by the change of license has given his agreement, we can close this issue. If I'm wrong, don't hesitate to notify me !

[JohnMH]

"infected by GPL"

Right. Okay.