[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Z80 assembler - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

Hi, 

I approved your project as it is. Your conditions seems perfectly
acceptable, you have the right to relicense your software whenever you
want, and as long it is still a GPL-compatible license, we can host
it.



address@hidden a tapoté :

> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Bas Wijnen <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: Later now under certain (I hope acceptable) conditions.
> Package: Z80 assembler
> System name: z80asm
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> The program is an assembler for the Z80 microprocessor, found in the MSX 
> computer.
>
> The primary goal of the assembler is to correctly assemble all valid Z80 
> code.  Secondary goal is to assemble undocumented instructions as well.
>
> Once the assembler is operational, the idea is to write \\\"header files\\\" 
> with label definitions for common MSX structures, such as the BIOS.  These 
> can then be included in programs, so they don\\\'t need to use numeric 
> literals.
>
> There is already functionality to write label files, containing label names 
> and their values in an includable format.  The plan is to write a framework 
> to make some sort of a linker with this functionality.!
>
> The source code is currently hosted at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msxz80asm/
>
> Note that the goal of the project has changed a little bit since I wrote it 
> there, it is now more about an assembler for the Z80 in general, not only for 
> the MSX computer.
>
> Other Software Required:
>
> Other Comments:
> I want to move this project from sourceforge to savannah, because I do not 
> want to be an advertisment for non-free software.
>
> I have changed the license to a limited "version 2 or later", I hope you like 
> it.  The changes are in the cvs at sourceforge, not in the latest release.  
> My e-mails to *.gnu.org don't seem to come through, therefore I quote what I 
> e-mailed here (I already made the changes, so the question if that could be 
> acceptable is obsolete):
>
>> Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic.
>
>> Would you please agree to license under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?
>
> I understand your position, however I have a problem with it:
>
> If for any reason GPL v3 or later would limit the freedoms of the end-user, 
> most likely because it becomes like the BSD license, I do not want to use it 
> for my program.
>
> I trust the FSF as it is now very much, and I am sure the GPL will not be 
> like this anytime soon.  But I don't know what will happen in the (far) 
> future.  I think it is a bad idea to make a habit of licensing code with this 
> clause, because removing it when the FSF would become less trustworthy may be 
> forgotten.  And anyway, all program versions until the removal would fall 
> under the new license.
>
> These two things (not wanting to sign a blank contract, to be filled in 
> later, but wanting to allow good license changes to be made without the need 
> of contacting all developers) are a big dilemma for me.  I have read the GPL 
> v2, and I think the good side of things (having the changes in the license 
> for the code when v3 comes out) will not be large (because v2 is exactly what 
> I want, so if v3 is good, it will at least be like it).  However, the 
> potential bad side of things (licensing BSD style) is very large.  For that 
> reason, I would like to license it as version 2 only.
>
> I would be happy to add a clause to allow version 3 or later, on the 
> condition that certain parts of the license are not changed in the newer 
> version (or better, that certain rights are still (not) given).  Let me know 
> if that would be acceptable, in that case I will write such a clause and send 
> it to you for approval.  If there is such a clause which is suggested by the 
> FSF, then I would like to hear about this, so I can see if it is acceptable 
> for me.
>
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