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Kristian Glass edited this page Dec 11, 2013 · 2 revisions

How come this has an MIT-style license, when the original has LGPL?

Because we asked nicely.

From: Andrew Ryrie <elided>
Subject: Pyroven licence change
Date: 29 June 2012 18:55:33 BST 

This is to confirm that I, Andrew Ryrie, permit the code and associated documentation for pyroven to be distributed under the MIT License as given below, subject to the restriction that my name must appear in the list of copyright holders.
 
Andrew Ryrie
 
 
MIT License:
 
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
 
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.