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

[Dan Scott]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Galen Charlton wrote:
> 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

I approve the change to the license  of GPL version 2 or later on the
portions of OpenNCIP code that I have contributed.

Thank you to everyone involved in this process for resolving a
longstanding problem!