<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Mike O'Connor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stew@debian.org">stew@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:00:06PM +0000, John McNamara wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jan Dittberner <<a href="mailto:jan@dittberner.info">jan@dittberner.info</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:54:25PM +0000, John McNamara wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Jan Dittberner <<a href="mailto:jan@dittberner.info">jan@dittberner.info</a>><br>
> > wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Bitmap.py contains a verbatim copy of a diagram and code from the<br>
> > Perl code<br>
> > > and<br>
> > > is subject to the terms of either the Artistic License, the GPL or<br>
> > both. I<br>
> > > think only the author of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel may allow the<br>
> > distribution<br>
> > > with your BSD licensed sources.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > As the author of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel you have my full permission to<br>
> > > distribute any derived code in Pyexcelerator under the BSD or any other<br>
> > > appropriate opensource license.<br>
> ><br>
> > Hi John,<br>
> ><br>
> > thanks for this permission.<br>
> ><br>
> > Is this permission granted only to us (Debian) and pyExelerator/xwlt or to<br>
> > everyone?<br>
> ><br>
> > Such a permission will be required to meet the criteria of the DFSG (Debian<br>
> > Free Software Guidelines) [1].<br>
> ><br>
> > [1] <a href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines</a><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Hi Jan,<br>
><br>
> Permission is granted to anyone participating in an open source initiative<br>
> and that certainly includes Debian and the others CC on this mail.<br>
><br>
> John.<br>
> --<br>
<br>
</div></div>John,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your responsiveness. I'm sorry, I'm sure it sounds like we<br>
are becoming annoying with this, however, if permission is only granted<br>
to people participating in an open source initiative, or only granted to<br>
debian, that isn't going to work for us in this case (Beceuase of<br>
sections 5,6,8 of the DFSG mentioned above). What we'd really need<br>
would be permission for ANYONE to be able to distribute the software<br>
under these new license terms.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div><div>No problem, I understand that you have to be precise about these things.</div><div><br></div></div><div>
In which case I grant permission to *anyone* to use the code derived from Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>John.</div><div>-- </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div>