Dual-license under Apache 2 and MS-PL, with Apache as default #598

lilith · 2014-11-24T19:41:52Z

Future contributions must be submitted under the Apache 2 terms (which permit relicensing as MS-PL, although MS-PL does not permit relicensing as Apache 2).

Contributors who released their code exclusively under the MS-PL will need to sign off on this change.

See #597 for rationale.

Future contributions must be submitted under the Apache 2 terms (which permit relicensing as MS-PL, although MS-PL does not permit relicensing as Apache 2). Contributors who released their code exclusively under the MS-PL will need to sign off on this change.

forki · 2014-11-24T20:52:04Z

So I can't decide this alone? That's unfortunate ;-)

lilith · 2014-11-24T21:01:47Z

I'm not a lawyer, but AFAIK, each contributor holds the copyright to their contributions.

Apache makes the licensing of contributions explicit, and - further - the Apache Contributor Agreement (which I use for my projects) assigns the maintaining organization all possible rights (non-exclusively), so that they can relicense without needing sign-offs.

Since the MS-PL has no clause about contribution licensing, my assumption is that users assume they are licensing it under MS-PL as well, although that's shaky territory. Either way, the safest bet is always an explicit contribution licensing statement from contributors.

lilith · 2014-11-25T13:24:51Z

Given the number of contributors on this project, it will be very hard to get them to all sign a CLA, even digitally. The more successful approach is to ask them to comment in the following form:

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

This grants us (and you) all of the same rights, with only the restrictions of the Apache license.

I've prepared a draft request here, which would need to be copy/pasted into two separate comments.

TWith2Sugars · 2014-11-27T09:56:08Z

More than happy to release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license. :)

forki · 2014-11-27T15:19:53Z

forki · 2014-11-27T15:20:34Z

mavnn · 2014-11-27T15:20:48Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

kurtschelfthout · 2014-11-27T15:21:50Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

colinbull · 2014-11-27T15:22:09Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

AlexZeitler · 2014-11-27T15:22:58Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license

chrisriesgo · 2014-11-27T15:23:34Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

joergpreiss · 2014-11-27T15:24:46Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license

ovatsus · 2014-11-27T15:25:55Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license

thinktainer · 2014-11-27T15:26:45Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

matthid · 2014-11-27T15:27:09Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

jfellien · 2014-11-27T15:28:32Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of
the Apache 2 license.
Am 27.11.2014 16:20 schrieb "Steffen Forkmann" notifications@github.com:

Sign-off list (page 1)

If you're on this list, and are OK with releasing FAKE under the Apache 2
license, make a comment along the following lines:

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms
of the Apache 2 license.

This will allow us to escape the Ms-PL, and be compatible with other OSS
license.

@forki https://github.com/forki

@MorganPersson https://github.com/MorganPersson

@colinbull https://github.com/colinbull

@mausch https://github.com/mausch

@brianary https://github.com/brianary

@vasily-kirichenko https://github.com/vasily-kirichenko

@ctaggart https://github.com/ctaggart

@mexx https://github.com/mexx

@Heather https://github.com/Heather

@mavnn https://github.com/mavnn

@dnauck https://github.com/dnauck

@fbmnds https://github.com/fbmnds

@jamescrowley https://github.com/jamescrowley

@DanielFabian https://github.com/DanielFabian

@dvdsgl https://github.com/dvdsgl

@bentayloruk https://github.com/bentayloruk

@ilkerde https://github.com/ilkerde

@TWith2Sugars https://github.com/TWith2Sugars

@sergey-tihon https://github.com/sergey-tihon

@kfuglsang https://github.com/kfuglsang

@lasandell https://github.com/lasandell

@thinkbeforecoding https://github.com/thinkbeforecoding

@MattDrivenDev https://github.com/MattDrivenDev

@trydis https://github.com/trydis

@shishkin https://github.com/shishkin

@t0yv0 https://github.com/t0yv0

@ovu https://github.com/ovu

@joergpreiss https://github.com/joergpreiss

@matthid https://github.com/matthid

@blacktaxi https://github.com/blacktaxi

@ovatsus https://github.com/ovatsus

@Ravadre https://github.com/Ravadre

@otto-gebb https://github.com/otto-gebb

@scitesy https://github.com/scitesy

@sri-prasanna https://github.com/sri-prasanna

@anirothan https://github.com/anirothan

@dguder https://github.com/dguder

@jfellien https://github.com/jfellien

@mstyura https://github.com/mstyura

@ianbattersby https://github.com/ianbattersby

@tkesselring https://github.com/tkesselring

@artur-s https://github.com/artur-s

@cdrnet https://github.com/cdrnet

@Gitulf https://github.com/Gitulf

@mantzas https://github.com/mantzas

@ssteward54 https://github.com/ssteward54

@yawaramin https://github.com/yawaramin

@baronfel https://github.com/baronfel

@gshackles https://github.com/gshackles

@ixtank https://github.com/ixtank

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#598 (comment).

joaomatossilva · 2014-11-27T15:28:53Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

kfuglsang · 2014-11-27T15:29:15Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

mantzas · 2014-11-27T15:30:43Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

AnthonyLloyd · 2014-11-27T15:31:00Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

DigitalFlow · 2014-11-27T15:32:47Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

kbaldyga · 2014-11-27T15:33:07Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

christolo · 2014-11-27T15:36:30Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

bentayloruk · 2014-11-27T15:38:04Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

MattDrivenDev · 2014-11-27T15:39:12Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

PapaMufflon · 2014-11-27T15:41:04Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

ccellar · 2014-11-27T15:45:36Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

Ravadre · 2014-11-27T15:46:46Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

DamianReeves · 2014-11-27T23:10:51Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

kos59125 · 2014-11-27T23:20:41Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

hafuu · 2014-11-28T00:15:30Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

yawaramin · 2014-11-28T02:21:17Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

pgarbe · 2014-11-28T05:19:17Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

mstyura · 2014-11-28T05:45:51Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

blacktaxi · 2014-11-28T06:31:13Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

cdrnet · 2014-11-28T07:59:47Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license (and also the MIT license).

palpha · 2014-11-28T08:54:11Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of
the Apache 2 license.

MikeBild · 2014-11-28T08:56:15Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

cnd · 2014-11-28T09:08:38Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

mausch · 2014-11-28T09:20:38Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

sri-prasanna · 2014-11-28T09:40:37Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

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On 28 Nov 2014, at 09:20, Mauricio Scheffer notifications@github.com wrote:

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

ixtank · 2014-11-28T10:52:13Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

Gitulf · 2014-11-28T10:53:54Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

t0yv0 · 2014-11-28T17:04:21Z

I hereby release all of my pathetic contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

ovu · 2014-11-29T11:06:16Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the
terms of the Apache 2 license.

Regards,

Omar Diego Vera Ustariz

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 07:19:56AM -0800, Steffen Forkmann wrote:

Sign-off list (page 1)

If you're on this list, and are OK with releasing FAKE under the Apache 2
license, make a comment along the following lines:

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of
the Apache 2 license.

This will allow us to escape the Ms-PL, and be compatible with other OSS
license.

• [*] @forki
• [ ] @MorganPersson
• [ ] @colinbull
• [ ] @mausch
• [ ] @brianary
• [ ] @vasily-kirichenko
• [ ] @ctaggart
• [ ] @mexx
• [ ] @Heather
• [ ] @mavnn
• [ ] @dnauck
• [ ] @fbmnds
• [ ] @jamescrowley
• [ ] @DanielFabian
• [ ] @dvdsgl
• [ ] @bentayloruk
• [ ] @ilkerde
• [ ] @TWith2Sugars
• [ ] @sergey-tihon
• [ ] @kfuglsang
• [ ] @lasandell
• [ ] @thinkbeforecoding
• [ ] @MattDrivenDev
• [ ] @trydis
• [ ] @shishkin
• [ ] @t0yv0
• [ ] @ovu
• [ ] @joergpreiss
• [ ] @matthid
• [ ] @blacktaxi
• [ ] @ovatsus
• [ ] @Ravadre
• [ ] @otto-gebb
• [ ] @scitesy
• [ ] @sri-prasanna
• [ ] @anirothan
• [ ] @dguder
• [ ] @jfellien
• [ ] @mstyura
• [ ] @ianbattersby
• [ ] @tkesselring
• [ ] @artur-s
• [ ] @cdrnet
• [ ] @Gitulf
• [ ] @mantzas
• [ ] @ssteward54
• [ ] @yawaramin
• [ ] @baronfel
• [ ] @gshackles
• [ ] @ixtank

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shishkin · 2014-11-29T11:24:24Z

Please all don't quote the original message as it mentions everyone and forces notifications.

rneatherway · 2014-11-30T00:20:22Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

ReedCopsey · 2014-11-30T00:22:33Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

quezlatch · 2014-12-01T13:57:48Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

pblasucci · 2014-12-03T13:44:19Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

lilith · 2014-12-03T16:31:53Z

Only six left!

@ablanchet, @ChrisMissal, @funnelweb,@fbmnds, @trydis, @scitesy

While it would be great to get their sign off, I don't think that it's strictly required that we get sign-off from the other remaining contributors (ianbattersby, DmitryLobanov, satish860, batbuild, panesofglass, johnnyelwailer jasonpatt), as their changes wouldn't meet US criteria for copyrightable work.

ChrisMissal · 2014-12-03T16:51:43Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

Dual-license under Apache 2 and MS-PL, with Apache as default

forki · 2014-12-03T17:08:43Z

Big thanks everyone. FAKE 3.11 is now dual-licensed.

I hope it's the last time we have to do such a crazy thing. Sorry for spamming.

panesofglass · 2014-12-03T18:55:35Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

ablanchet · 2014-12-05T08:38:49Z

I hereby release all of my contributions to this project under the terms of the Apache 2 license.

lilith mentioned this pull request Nov 24, 2014

Consider dual-licensing? #597

Closed

forki added a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 3, 2014

Merge pull request #598 from imazen/apache-license

5fc6356

Dual-license under Apache 2 and MS-PL, with Apache as default

forki merged commit 5fc6356 into fsprojects:master Dec 3, 2014

forki mentioned this pull request Mar 27, 2015

Align with fsharp.compiler service dotnet/fsharp#334

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Dual-license under Apache 2 and MS-PL, with Apache as default #598

Dual-license under Apache 2 and MS-PL, with Apache as default #598

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