[Nfd-dev] License boilerplate for code imported from NFD to ndn-cxx

[Alex Afanasyev]

On Oct 7, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Davide Pesavento <davide.pesavento at lip6.fr> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Alex Afanasyev
> <alexander.afanasyev at ucla.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> In this specific case, as Davide pointed out, we are required by the law to preserve the original copyright.  Technically speaking, we will need agreement with each copyright holder to change the license, but I hope this is not an issue at the moment.
>> 
> 
> Hope doesn't help in lawsuits. It's better to do this right. And it's
> also very simple in this case since I am the sole author of the
> Ethernet code, while FaceUri was written by Junxiao, Wentao, and you
> (according to git). It takes less than 5 minutes to ask 3 people if
> they're ok with the relicensing.

Unfortunately, this is not that simple.  Only copyright "owners" can re-license, which in our case are not the authors of the specific code, but institutions in NDN project.

The objective for NDN project is to have code open.  The agreement that we had before starting the project is that code can be relicensed later, if needed.  This, technically, is the time for invoking such an agreement.

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Alex