5:35 p.m.
To whomever it may concern,
Given the confusion (see mail history) on some license issue I wrote some time ago.
I hereby release all versions of 2xSai, old and new, under the GNU General Public License,
version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
I did in fact give the ZSNES and probably some other projects permission a long time ago
(don't remember exactly when, but probably when it was either first featured or it
went from closed source -> GPL), but I guess it wasn't documented as such in the
history.
For future reference you probably can ping me.
[d][e][r][e][k][.][l][i][a][u][w][(a)][g][m][a][i][l][.][c][o][m]
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--- On Tue, 10/13/09, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2xSai has an unclear license and may be removed from a number of programs
in Fedora Linux
To: "Derek Liauw" <derekl666(a)yahoo.com>, "Derek Liauw Kie Fa"
<derek-liauw(a)usa.net>, "Robert J. Ohannessian"
<voidstar(a)ifrance.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 4:00 AM
Thanks for your reply Derek.
1.
What's your new email address?
I don't check this e-mail often but it's still "in use". Now if
yahoo had a forward feature I would use it, but alas...
2.
It would be very helpful if I could write to that email
address and CC
a public mailing list. This might cause you to get
more email about
2xSaI. [ You don't have to reply to all the emails;
if need be, you
can just reply with the three words "Sorry, I'm busy". :)
] May I
please do that CC'ing, even though your new email address
will then
become public?
3.
Can I forward emails we have sent to each other to public
mailing
lists or forums?
4.
I looked for a public Snes9x source repository but its repo
is
actually nonpublic, and Snes9x is under a "non-commercial
use only"
freeware license.[1] In zsnes's public repo 2xsai.cpp
is there[2] in
the "deleted files" section of /src/video, but there's no
comment,
even in the revision log[3], that you gave this
permission. So I fear
that people will incorrectly think ZSNES relicensed your
code without
your permission. Plus, there are multiple versions of
2xSaI floating
around.
Considering both these points, I think the best thing to do
is to
reply to this message with a permission notice.
Please CC it to a
public mailing list like fedora-legal-list(a)redhat.com
or
debian-legal(a)lists.debian.org.
Either one is fine, but pick only one.
Pick according to your distro preference, or pick
fedora-legal-list
if you don't care. Write the words "I hereby release
all versions of
2xSai, old and new, under the GNU General Public License,
version 2 or
(at your option) any later version".
Kind regards,
-Jason
^ [1]. http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4334
^ [2]. http://zsnes.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/zsnes/zsnes/src/video/?hideattic=0
^ [3].
http://zsnes.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/zsnes/zsnes/src/video/2xsai.cpp?h...
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Derek Liauw <derekl666(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Wow,
>
> It's been at least 11 years since I wrote the code and
at least 7 years since
> I checked this e-mail lol... So just saw this
(somewhat old) by chance. So
> hope this still helps.
>
> To be honest I don't care what happens to the code
anymore?
>
> Whatever .zip file is around is probably from my old
xoom/usa.net website.
>
> If I remember correctly I agreed that newer versions
of the code could be
> released under GPL with ZSNES a long time ago (which I
integrated and agreed
> with the original author "_zsKnight").
>
> And yes I probably neglected to update all
pre-existing files/my abandoned
> website and such.
>
> My bad, but 1. I don't think my website exists
anymore. 2. If it does exist
> I probably don't know how to update it and the .zip
distro. 3. I haven't
> felt like making a new website for quite a while :P 4.
I consider ZSNES or
> the Snes9x projects as the new "source" of the
file(s), since those are newer
> versions / I more or less integrated them there, and I
assume the files
> source files already have a GPL license. (my memory
isn't that great).
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --- On Thu, 7/30/09, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> From: Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4(a)gmail.com>
>> Subject: 2xSaI has an unclear license and may be
removed from a number of programs in Fedora Linux
>> To: "Derek Liauw Kie Fa" <derek-liauw(a)usa.net>,
"Derek Liauw Kie Fa" <derekl666(a)yahoo.com>,
"Robert J. Ohannessian" <voidstar(a)ifrance.com>
>> Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 11:06 PM
>> Hi,
>>
>> Derek's website[1] has a downloadable copy of
2xSaI
>> available for
>> download. The text of the website says "GPL",
but the
>> readme file
>> says something contradictory:
>>
>> 2xSaI Utility v0.7 Copyright (c)
>> Derek Liauw Kie Fa, 1999
>> Comments, Suggestions, Questions, Bugs etc.: derek-liauw(a)usa.net
>> http://members.xoom.com/derek_liauw/
>> This program is free for non-commercial use.
>>
>> Is the program GPLed (which means it is free to
sell,
>> modify, and
>> more), or is it merely free for non-commercial
use?
>> If it is GPLed,
>> then Derek, could you please update the zipfile to
say so,
>> and email
>> me the updated file?
>>
>> If you do not answer, then Fedora Linux may have
to rip out
>> 2xSaI from
>> many programs included on the Fedora DVD. This
will
>> be a lot of work,
>> and will make those programs worse. :) This
is
>> because Fedora does
>> not allow software which is only free for
non-commercial
>> use on their
>> DVD. They require that the DVD be allowed to be
>> sold.
>>
>> Note that I don't represent or volunteer for
Fedora.
>> I am just
>> telling you their policies.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> -Jason Spiro
>>
>> ^ [1]. http://web.archive.org/elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~dalikifa/