Relicensing to MIT

[xxxserxxx]

See racket/racket#1570. I would like to relicense gotop to the more permissive MIT license and doing so would require having any past and future contributors relicense their changes under the MIT license. The AGPLv3 license was originally chosen due to the drawille-go dependency and also the smc.c and smc.h files for macOS temperatures, both of which are GPL and which we would also need to migrate off of.

If you have contributed commits to gotop and are willing to relicense your commits under MIT, please comment on this issue with the following:

I, <name>, license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

Thanks!

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edit: updated the relicensing wording for clarity.

[xxxserxxx]

Pinging contributors here. If you agree to have the code that you have contributed to gotop be relicensed to MIT, please post your consent to relicense on this issue (#151). Thanks!

• @mgamsjager
• @omar-polo
• @mattLLVW
• @chiefy
• @f1337
• @a-lxe
• @tonylambiris
• @whuang8
• @serussell
• @tie
• @Lin-Buo-Ren
• @gbrlsnchs
• @CodeLingoBot
• @zp
• @0mp
• @999eagle
• @h8liu
• @panter-dsd
• @phpor
• @BartWillems (via email)
• @ionlights (John Muchovej)
• anteR
• Brian Mattern
• Caleb Bassi (original ticket author)
• HowJMay
• Jaron Swab
• Jeffrey Horn
• Kraust
• Markus Peloquin
• Mathieu Tortuyaux
• matt LLVW
• MaxSem
• Pzp
• William Dawn

[xxxserxxx]

I, Alex Aubuchon, give permission to license my contributions to gotop under MIT.

[xxxserxxx]

Not that I hold a significant portion of the gotop's copyright, go ahead.

I, 林博仁(Buo-ren, Lin), give permission to license my contributions to gotop under MIT.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Gabriel Sanches, give permission to license my contributions to gotop under MIT.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Konstantin Konnov (panter_dsd), give permission to license my contributions to gotop under MIT.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Matt Melquiond, give permission to license my contributions to gotop under MIT.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Sophie Tauchert, give permission to license my contributions to gotop under MIT.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Tony Lambiris, give permission to license my contributions to gotop under MIT.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Matthias Gamsjager, give permission to license my contributions to gotop under MIT.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Ivan Trubach, license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Mateusz Piotrowski, license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Sean E. Russell, license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

I, William Huang, license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Omar Polo, license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

I, Christopher Najewicz , license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

I, bryan , license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

Also: cjbassi#151 (comment)

[xxxserxxx]

The comment closed the ticket; I'm reaching out one last time to the folks who haven't responded, and will leave the ticket open until the 4.0 release.

[h8liu]

I, Lonnie Liu , license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

@BartWillems responded in the affirmative via email.

[wcdawn]

I, William Dawn, licence past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[xxxserxxx]

On May 20, 2020, in an attempt to close up the folks who haven't yet signed off, I sent the following email to the contributors listed (emails hidden) at the bottom of this post. Per the email, the cut-off date is June 03, 2020.

Since Caleb stopped developing gotop[1], I've taken over maintainer-ship of
the project. I'm requesting that each of you to take a few minutes
and give your approval on github for the re-license. The ticket is here:

#36

Thanks again for your contributions, and the time you take to comment on
the ticket will be appreciated.

More information

• The current gotop license is AGPL.

• I am re-licensing gotop under MIT 3-clause.

• [1] Caleb has stopped using Go, and has switched to Rust. He has
  re-implemented gotop in Rust, and called it ytop; you can find it
  here:
  https://github.com/cjbassi/ytop
  You can see Caleb's announcement on his gotop repository, and his link
  to my repository. Most (many?) downstream distribution channels have
  been redirected to the new repository.

• Caleb opened ticket Fix unused import and go mod tidy #151 (Relicensing to MIT cjbassi/gotop#151)
  for the re-license to MIT in June, 2019. As no more development is
  happening on that repository, I'm asking that approvals be made on the
  cloned ticket.

• You are being contacted because there's a commit in the project git
  history in your name.

• Caleb referenced a similar ticket from the Racket project, which
  explains their change; their ticket (rationale and explanation) aligns
  with this change.
  Relicensing Permission racket/racket#1570

• In alignment with the Racket post, non-response will be taken as
  implicit approval of the change.

Caleb posted his request nearly a year ago. I'm making a good-faith
final effort to reach out to the remaining folks for explicit approval.
Prior to the next major release (4.0) which will happen no sooner than
two weeks from now, a copy of this email and list of recipients (with
emails hidden) will be added to the ticket, and the ticket will be
closed.

Nano-FAQ

Q: What if I don't agree?
A: I'll revert your contribution(s) and provide an alternative solution.

Q: Wouldn't this delay the 4.0 release and bring me bad karma?
A: Yes. Yes, it would. It would also make me sad.

Q: Why would I do this? Aren't I a good person?
A: Yes! You're the best person. I don't know why we're even having
this conversation.

Recipients:

• CodeLingo Bot <bot@...>
• Bart Willems <bwillems@...>
• Michael R Fleet <f1337@...>
• John Muchovej <git@...>
• Jeffrey Horn <jeffreyh@...>
• Jaron Swab <jrswab@...>
• Lonnie Liu <liulonnie@...>
• Markus Peloquin <markus@...>
• Mathieu Tortuyaux <mathieu.tortuyaux@...>
• matt LLVW <matt.llvw@...>
• MaxSem <maxsem.wiki@...>
• PanteR <panter.dsd@...>
• Brian Mattern <rephorm@...>
• Kraust <secretdragoon@...>
• Pzp <thatguyzp@...>
• HowJMay <vulxj0j8j8@...>

[jmuchovej]

Sorry, didn't see this until now.

I, John Muchovej (@ionlights), license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

[markuspeloquin]

I, Markus Peloquin, license past and future contributions to gotop under the MIT license.

And thank you for adopting a permissive license.

[xxxserxxx]

v4.0.0 has been released, and with it, the relicensing is complete. Thanks to everyone who responded.