[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notice of Change to License for OpenNCIP

[Jason Stephenson]

Hi,

I just want to state publicly that we are happy with the license  
change in OpenNCIP, and that it is fine with us that our patches go in  
with the new license.

Just in case that needs to be said, since we have made a patch  
available for inclusion in OpenNCIP/SIPServer.

Jason Stephenson
Assistant Director for Technology Services
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

Quoting Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>:

> Hi Elizabeth,
>
> On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:57 PM, McKinney, Elizabeth wrote:
>> Evergreen and other Open Source Community Members,
>>
>> The Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) is the primary copyright  
>> holder on OpenNCIP.  The source code can be found at the following  
>> sites:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openncip/
>> https://github.com/atz/SIPServer
>>
>> As the director of the PINES program, I want to notify you that  
>> GPLS is permitting the change of the license of OpenNCIP from the  
>> GNU Public License version 2 to the GNU Public License version 2 or  
>> later in order to give it the same license that Evergreen uses.   
>> This will facilitate easier code sharing between OpenNCIP and  
>> Evergreen and thus benefit the Evergreen community.
>>
>> Feel free to distribute this notice as needed.
>
> Thank you for this.  I confirm on behalf of Equinox that we are also  
> willing to relicense any OpenNCIP code that we hold copyright on to  
> the GPL version 2 or later.
>
> Based on the change logs, the following individuals may have  
> individual copyright on portions of OpenNCIP.  I now call on each of  
> them to either approve the license change, object, or disclaim  
> copyright interest.
>
> Joe Atzberger
> David Fiander
> Dan Scott
>
> If anybody is aware of other individuals with a copyright interest  
> in the OpenNCIP code, please pass this request on to them.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
> VP, Data Services
> Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
> email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
> direct: +1 352-215-7548
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>
>