Re: I wish to help

[Chris Gray]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Chris Gray wrote:

> Although The Boss is now back, I haven't yet cornered him to double-check 
> this. However I'm sure that to get into our main source tree, code would 
> need to be assigned to us, or at least released under a licence no more
> restrictive than BSD: anything else would need to be "quarantined" to 
> prevent it from leaking into a BSD'd or binary-only product. IOW it would 
> be an "external library" from out POV.

O.K., I've checked with The Boss and The Lawyer.

Yes, we can make any or all of the Wonka/Rudolph code available under a 
disjunctive licence, i.e. WPL (=BSD) or at your option GPL+exception.

No, we will not assign copyright to FSF.

For the core Wonka sources, including java.awt and the Rudolph peers, we 
need to retain the right to distribute the code under our BSD-style 
licence, which implies that said code may find its way into a binary-only 
distribution. The most direct route to that goal is copyright assignment 
to us, but other routes exist. We do promise contributors that their code 
will remain available under the prevailing open source licence, i.e. we 
will not "privatise" it.

I am aware that some developers find the idea that code contributed by 
them to an open-source project could someday wind up in a binary-only 
distribution to be monstrous. I can only say: the Wonka Public Licence 
grants these developers the same rights as are granted to everyone else.

-- 

Chris Gray

VM Architect, ACUNIA