Change the license of the library from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1

[liblouis]

Change the license of the library from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1

[egli]

According to Dave Mielke brltty is already LGPLv2.1, so I will mark all brltty contributors as consenting to the change

[egli]

The list is based on the AUTHORS file in the distribution. John Gardner sent out a request to all contributors and collected the answers in a big zip file. Based on that file I marked all consenting contributors.

[johnjboyer]

My consent is a given. It's long past time we got out of the LGPL3
straitjacket.

John

[egli]

I guess since SBS owns the work of Christian Waldvogel and since SBS agrees to the license change we can mark him off as consenting

[egli]

Checked off all the people from ViewPlus (Leon Ungier, Mike Sivill, Tom Johnston and Yuemei Sun)

[egli]

The hyphen library is licensed under LGPLv2.1 so no need to ask for a relicense.

[egli]

James Teh agreed to relicense in a mail to the liblouis list (http://www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/License-issue,28)

[egli]

Ken Perry works for APH, and according to John Gardner

they have agreed to re-license. This was done long before I raised the issue on the list, but I'll get APH to add a note to the archive.

[simait]

You have my consent to re-license to LGPL v2.1.

-- Simon

[cannona]

You have my permission to relicense all of my contributions at will.

Aaron Cannon

[plundblad]

Contributions from me (Peter Lundblad, listed as Peter Nilsson Lundblad above) and Jeremy Roman were done as Google employees and we give our consent to relicense.

[egli]

Eitan gives permission

Received: from [192.168.0.37] (c-66-235-53-56.sea.wa.customer.broadstripe.net. [66.235.53.56])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id e1sm5873681pdd.20.2015.06.17.16.13.04
        (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
        Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:13:05 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:13:02 -0700
From: Eitan Isaacson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: liblouis license change to LGPL 2.1?
To: Christian Egli <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], "Gardner, John" <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: geary/0.10.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-GEn38pqkKOMYBNC3al4K"

--=-GEn38pqkKOMYBNC3al4K
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

You have my permission to re-license my code, files, and all the rest!

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Christian Egli <[email protected]>=20
wrote:
> Hi Eitan
>=20
> You might know that we are trying to change the license of liblouis=20
> from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1 (as documented in=20
> https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/26). You are one of the=20
> authors and quite some code was written by you. Would you agree to=20
> change your contributions from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1?
>=20
> Also while I have your attention: Some of the code in the test=20
> directory doesn't have any license headers and was also (according to=20
> the version history) written by you. Would you mind changing the test=20
> code to the GNU All-Permissive License (see also=20
> https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/22)
>=20
> Thanks
> Christian

[egli]

Vincent Untz says:

Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:40:18 +0200
From: Vincent Untz <[email protected]>
To: Christian Egli <[email protected]>
Cc: "Gardner, John" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: liblouis license change to LGPL 2.1?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at s05.sbszh.ch

Hi,

Le mercredi 17 juin 2015, à 18:39 +0200, Christian Egli a écrit :
> Hi Vincent
> 
> You might know that we are trying to change the license of liblouis
> from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1 (as documented in
> https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/26). You have provided a
> patch in the past and are hence one of the copyright holders. Would
> you agree to change your contributions from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1?

Sure, no problem. I don't even know what I contributed, but that's fine
(including if it was done on behalf of my employer, SUSE).

Cheers,

Vincent

[egli]

We got permission from Harri Pasanen, see mailing list archive

[egli]

Bue has given permission

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from exsmtp-gw01.mailcloud.dk (exsmtp-gw01.mailcloud.dk [193.239.98.147])
    by mail01.sbs.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F575F1
    for <[email protected]>; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:17:20 +0100 (CET)
X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mailcloud.dk
Received: from bvaPc (5.103.86.26) by EXHUB02.exchangeserver.dk
 (193.239.98.60) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.176.0; Mon, 15 Feb 2016
 21:10:12 +0100
From: Bue Vester-Andersen <[email protected]>
To: Christian Egli <[email protected]>
References: <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: VS: [liblouis-liblouisxml] [liblouis/liblouis] aa8bf3: Move to LGPLv2.1 for GPLed tables
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:07:13 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0
Thread-Index: AQHUKGPho1t/j/kfI+IDvDK8MC+3UJ8oBrbg
Content-Language: da
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at s05.sbszh.ch

Hi Christian,

I think my tables are already lgpl. If not, then it is quite ok for me =
to move them to lgpl. If you need me to do anything formal about it, =
please tell me.

Is there any quick and simple explanation as to why one is better than =
the other?

Bue

[egli]

On the phone Michael Gray did give me permission to release his UEB changes under the LGPL2.1

[egli]

Peter Vágner has given permission. See his post in the mailing list archive

[egli]

Branislav Mamojka agrees to the license change

-------- Preposlaná správa --- Forwarded Message --------
Predmet: Re: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New slovak braille table
Dátum: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:56:04 +0200
Od: Branislav Mamojka [email protected]
Pre: Peter Vágner [email protected], [email protected]

Of course, I agree with the license change.

Best regards

Branislav Mamojka
predseda ÚNSS

UNSS - Unia nevidiacich a slabozrakych Slovenska
Slovak Blind and Partially Sighted Union

Sekulska 1, 84250 Bratislava
Slovak Republic

[dkager]

I agree, and just ticked my box. :)

[egli]

Paul Wood just gave me permission

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:02:40 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: Liblouis tables license change
References: <[email protected]>
To: Christian Egli <[email protected]>
From: "Paul Wood (Torch)" <[email protected]>
Organization: Torch Trust
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:02:42 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Happy to, I thought I had, but anyway they are inherited ones. I've just 
tweaked them a bit!

Thanks for doing all this!

Cheers
Paul

[egli]

There is an issue in the Apache Openoffice issue tracker about including dictionaries. It seems to say that it is near impossible to change the license of these and that it might be ok to include because it is mere "aggregation"

Dictionaries are not a dependency of OpenOffice.org: they are packaged, even in the installer for native builds, as extensions. Any Windows version of OpenOffice.org is shipped as one file, containing separate modules for OpenOffice.org and for each linguistic extension (i.e., the dictionaries).

This is possible because OpenOffice.org dictionaries, as confirmed by the Free Software Foundation in 2007 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=65039 fall in the "mere aggregation" provision of the GPL license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

[egli]

Jostein gave me permission to re-license the norwegian tables (where NLB has copyright)

1. jun. 2016 12:02 skrev "Christian Egli" [email protected]:

Some of the no-* tables that you guys contributed have neither a license nor a copyright statement. Can I add the following copyright statement and add a LGPLv2.1 license?

Copyright (C) 2015 NLB Norwegian library of talking books and braille, http://www.nlb.no/

Yes that is fine. NLB is happy to contribute back upstream :).

[egli]

Jukka Eerikäinen gave permission to change the license and the change the copyright to Celia.

jukkae> egli: regarding licenses and copyrights you asked me last week: (c) celia and LGPLv2.1 are ok :)

[egli]

Simone Simone Dal Maso agrees to change the license

-----Original Message-----
From: Simone Dal Maso [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 2:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: licensing italian braille table

Hello Joseph,
I am the owner of the italian 8 dots table for liblouis.

I want to agree to the new license.
What should I do for this?
Thank you!

For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://liblouis.org

[egli]

Dipendra has agreed to relicense

I fully support re-licensing of mn-MN.utb table to LGPLv2.1+.

[egli]

Shankar, who contributed to the Tamil table has agreed to re-license

[egli]

We got permission from the entire Braille Section team:

Dear Sir,
We, the team of Braille Section, Anna Centenary Library agree on that. It includes Me, Mr. T. D. Dinakar, Mr. K. Navarasan and for Mesar, would like to take this opportunity for his concurrence too.
With best regards,
Shankar

[egli]

The work done by Mohammed R. Ramadan was actually done for ViewPlus, so the copyright lies with ViewPlus.

[egli]

CBB agrees to change the license:

On 09/12/2016 10:31 AM, Davy Kager wrote:

During my vacation I received an OK from the CBB regarding the move to
GPLv2.

[egli]

Thanks to tireless efforts of Dipendra Manocha we have permission to re-license from the National Institute for Visually Handicapped, India:

From: "Dipendra Manocha" <dipendra.manocha@.>
To: "'Christian Egli'" <christian.egli@.>
Subject: Indian Language tables concent from NIVH
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 22:08:29 +0530
Message-ID: <3bfa01d24f16$10a4b430$31ee1c90$@.>

Dear Christian. Forwarding the consent for relicensing of the Indian Language braille tables under LGPL V2.1
Mr, Birendra Singh is the Braille Development officer and convener of the Braille Council of India.
This would complete the permissions for Indian Language braille tables.
Thanks
Dipendra

From: VIRENDRA SINGH [mailto:nivh.bdovs@.]
Sent: 05 December 2016 17:11
To: Dipendra Manocha <dipendra.manocha@.>
Subject:

Dear Mr Manocha,
Please refer to your e-mail dated November 28, 2016 .I am directed to convey that the institute extent its consent for re-licensing of Liblouis braille tables under LGPL V2.1., since it will be used for the cause of persons with visual disabilities.
thanking you,
Shri Virendra Singh
(BDO)

[egli]

Dipendra says:

Sreeja actually works for me. She has no problems in this re-licensing.

[egli]

We got permission from Abdolamir Banisaeid (see #208 (comment))

[egli]

We have permission from Mohammadreza Rashad

[egli]

We received permission from DocArch to relicense their tables:

---------- Doorgestuurd bericht ----------
Van: Nico Scheepmans [email protected]
Datum: 14 februari 2017 om 14:06
Onderwerp: FW: FW: FW: Probleem omtrent auteurschap
Aan: Bert Frees [email protected]

Geachte heer

Hierbij het akkoord van het huidige afdelingshoofd.

Met vriendelijke groeten

Nico Scheepmans

Juridisch adviseur | KU Leuven | Algemeen beheer

Krakenstraat 3 bus 5516, lokaal 01.17 | 3000 Leuven | België
[email protected] | www.kuleuven.be

Van: Marc Moonen [mailto:[email protected]]
Verzonden: dinsdag 14 februari 2017 2:06
Aan: Nico Scheepmans [email protected]
CC: Marc Moonen [email protected]; Jan Engelen [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: FW: FW: Probleem omtrent auteurschap

Beste Nico,

ik volg Jan in deze, dus als hij geen bezwaar maakt, voor mij ook geen probleem

beste groeten
Marc

On 14/02/17 13:44, Nico Scheepmans wrote:

Geachte professor

Wij kregen enige tijd geleden onderstaande vraag van de heer Bert Frees:

“Van 2009 tot 2011 heb ik in naam van KU Leuven bijgedragen tot
verschillende software-projecten, open source en onder vrije, copyleft
licensies. Een van die projecten[1] wil nu een licensieverandering
doorvoeren (van LGPLv3[2] naar LGPLv2.1[3]) en daarvoor moeten alle
betrokken partijen hun toestemming geven.

Ik werkte indertijd voor DocArch, een onderzoeksgroep onder leiding
van Prof. Jan Engelen en onderdeel van het departement electrotechniek
(ESAT). Maar aangezien DocArch ondertussen is opgedoekt en de prof met
emiritaat is weet ik niet wie ik hiervoor moet contacteren, en wie
überhaubt de officiële copyright-houder is.”

Prof. Engelen was hiermee akkoord. Ik begreep van LRD dat het diensthoofd hierover kan beslissen (software blijft eigendom van de universiteit). Nu prof. Engelen met emeritaat is wil ik u vragen of u, als afdelingshoofd in functie,  enig bezwaar heeft?

Kan de Docarch-code mee worden opgenomen in de licentieverandering die het Liblouisteam wil doorvoeren?

Met vriendelijke groeten

Nico Scheepmans

Juridisch adviseur | KU Leuven | Algemeen beheer

Krakenstraat 3 bus 5516, lokaal 01.17 | 3000 Leuven | België
[email protected] | www.kuleuven.be

[egli]

We got permission from Tsengel Maidar

Message-ID: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 16:57:47 +0800
In-Reply-To: [email protected]

hello Christian, sreeja
so i have to Preparations mn table liblouis next release.

1. we are agree that permission to change the licensed under LGPLv2.1+

warm regards
tsengel
director, E braille soft LLC

[egli]

We got persmission from Asoka Bandula

Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 12:45:11 +0530
Message-ID: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: sinhala liblouis tables

[...] I absolutely don't mind to change the licence from LGPLv3
to LGPLv2.1+.

[egli]

Ali ([email protected]) agreed to change the license

Hello Christian,
I saw your message much later.
Yes, of course I agree to re-license.
Thanks.

[egli]

we got permission from Igor B. Poretsky, see #937 (comment)

[egli]

Caterina Avoledo agrees (see https://www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/please-a-correction-for-the-italian-8-dots-braille-table,2)

[egli]

Bert got a mail from Halim Sahin with the permission to change

[lukaszgo1]

I've contacted Harpo and they gave their consent to relicence:

Dzień dobry,
Tak, wyrażamy zgodę na zmianę licencji na GPL2.
Pozdrawiam,
Karol Pecyna


Początek przekazywanej wiadomości:

Od: Lukasz Golonka <[email protected]>
Temat: Odp: Zmiana licencji polskiej tablicy dla brajla komputerowego w bibliotece LibLouis
Data: 24 września 2021 o 15:00:42 CEST
Do: [email protected]

Szanowni Państwo,

jako, że nie otrzymałem odpowiedzi na swoją poprzednią wiadomość 
pozwalam sobie się przypomnieć.

On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:14:51 +0200
Łukasz Golonka <[email protected]> wrote:

Szanowni Państwo,

w roku 2015 Państwa pracownik, Pan Karol Pecyna, napisał i wysłał tabelę dla polskiego brajla komputerowego do projektu LibLouis. Niestety tabela ta jest na licencji LGPL-3+ - autorzy LibLouis-a starają się przechodzić na LGPL-2.1+ co jest konieczne, aby tabele te mogły być wykorzystywane np. na urządzeniach firm takich jak Apple lub Amazon. W związku z tym chciałbym zapytać czy istnieje możliwość, aby wyrazili Państwo zgodę na zmianę licencji tej tabeli na GPL2.

-- 
Z wyrazami szacunku
Łukasz Golonka




-- 
Karol Pecyna
Harpo Sp. z o. o.
ul. 27 Grudnia 7
61-737 Poznan
POLAND
tel. [phone]
fax  [phone]
http://www.harpo.com.pl

Also it seems I'm mentioned on the licensing status page as an author of the table licensed under GPL 3 however I've just contributed to the Polish computer braille table before Harpo agreed to relicence. Having said that if my consent is specifically required I agree to relicence my fixes to Polish 8-dot table to GPL 2.

[lukaszgo1]

@egli Don't forget to check Karol Pecyna's checkbox in the initial comment just to avoid confusion.

[egli]

@lukaszgo1 ah, OK, yes, thanks for the reminder

[egli]

Tamru agreed to re-license

Dear Christian,
Greeting!
In the first, I would like to ask an apology for replying your email after six month later.
I was in Ethiopia since Jan. up to October 09, 2021 where I couldn't access my Canadian email account when I'm in Ethiopia
Now, yes please go ahead and put the license header in the Ethiopic Letters and punctuation Braille Table license header.
Again, many thanks for your good job!
Cordially,
Tamru.