[Python-modules-team] Xlwt/Pyexcelerator licensing information needs to be clarified

[Mike O'Connor]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:01:52PM +0000, John McNamara wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Mike O'Connor <stew at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:00:06PM +0000, John McNamara wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jan Dittberner <jan at dittberner.info>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:54:25PM +0000, John McNamara wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Jan Dittberner <jan at dittberner.info
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >     Bitmap.py contains a verbatim copy of a diagram and code from the
> > > > Perl code
> > > > >     and
> > > > >     is subject to the terms of either the Artistic License, the GPL
> > or
> > > > both. I
> > > > >     think only the author of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel may allow the
> > > > distribution
> > > > >     with your BSD licensed sources.
> > > > >
> > > > > As the author of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel you have my full permission
> > to
> > > > > distribute any derived code in Pyexcelerator under the BSD or any
> > other
> > > > > appropriate opensource license.
> > > >
> > > > Hi John,
> > > >
> > > > thanks for this permission.
> > > >
> > > > Is this permission granted only to us (Debian) and pyExelerator/xwlt or
> > to
> > > > everyone?
> > > >
> > > > Such a permission will be required to meet the criteria of the DFSG
> > (Debian
> > > > Free Software Guidelines) [1].
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Jan,
> > >
> > > Permission is granted to anyone participating in an open source
> > initiative
> > > and that certainly includes Debian and the others CC on this mail.
> > >
> > > John.
> > > --
> >
> > John,
> >
> > Thanks for your responsiveness.  I'm sorry, I'm sure it sounds like we
> > are becoming annoying with this, however, if permission is only granted
> > to people participating in an open source initiative, or only granted to
> > debian, that isn't going to work for us in this case (Beceuase of
> > sections 5,6,8 of the DFSG mentioned above).  What we'd really need
> > would be permission for ANYONE to be able to distribute the software
> > under these new license terms.
> >
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> No problem, I understand that you have to be precise about these things.
> 
> In which case I grant permission to *anyone* to use the code derived from
> Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.
> 
> If that isn't sufficient then just agree a wording that you would all be
> happy with and I will give my blessing to it.
> 
> John.
> --

John,

Thanks again.  I'm satisfied for now, however it would be helpful if in
future releases of the software, you made this change in the licensing
explicit in the tarball.

stew
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