SDCC ASXXXX License
2008-07-22 Alan Baldwin, the original asxxxx author, wrote me the following e-mail:
I am pleased to give you permission to change the sdcc ASxxxx version to the GPL license. Have you any thoughts about which version, 2 or 3, of the GPL is best for the project? I haven't decided upon the GPL version for the newest ASxxxx and ASlink at this time. Alan
2008-11-17 Ken Hornstein, contributor of the implementation of object libraries in file lklibr.c, wrote me the following e-mail:
Yes, I give you permission to change the license of any code that I wrote for asxxxx to GPL (personally, I actually prefer a BSD-style license, but since you've already made the decision to use GPL then it's not a big deal for me). --Ken
2009-01-03 John Hartman, author of ASXXXX and ASLINK port for 8051, contributor of the implementation of functions required to create a NoICE debug file (lknoice.c), allocated string storage module (lkstore.c) and many other enhancement and fixes:
Since Alan Baldwin has given his permission, I give my permission as well. Best regards, John Hartman
2009-01-03 I, Borut Ražem [user:borutr], took the decision:
The SDCC branch of asxxxx package will be licensed under GPL "either version 2, or (at your option) any later version".
But...
2009-01-12 Alan Baldwin sent me the following e-mail, which means that we (I) have to change our decision if we want to be able to merge the code from the original asxxxx.
Borut, I have been giving the licensing selection some thought over the last few weeks. I have decided to use the GPL V3 for the next release of the ASxxxx Assemblers (V5.0). Hopefully this will be a more long term licensing scheme rather than starting with GPL V2 and then changing later. Regards, Alan
2009-02-05 Changed sdcc asxxxx license to GPLv3
2009-04-01 Alan Baldwin released asxxxx Version 5.0 licensed under GPLv3 or later. The legal path to synchronize or re-merge both branches is now open!
All sdcc asxxxx contributors have to agree with the license change and to vote which GPL version to use.
| Author: | sdcc asxxxx contributor |
|---|---|
| GPL version: | "GPLv2 or later", "GPLv3 or later" or any of them |
| Comment: | comment |
| Author | GPL version | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Baldwin | "GPLv3 or later" | decision communicated to Borut Ražem 2009-01-12 |
| Borut Ražem [1] | any | |
| Maarten Brock [2] | "GPLv2 or later" | |
| Jesus Calvino-Fraga [3] | "GPLv2 or later" | |
| drdani [4] | any |
Developers who committed changes to svn or cvs:
