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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday February 9 2011 10:10:04 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:52:21AM -0800, Johan Hake wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > UCSD is not willing to sign the consent statement about GPL 3...
> > 
> > From the answer I got:
> >   LGPL incorporates GPL 3, and that is the problem. Earlier versions of
> >   the GPL did not deal in patent rights, while Version 3 does. It would
> >   commit a license to the entire UC patent estate, whether the inventors
> >   were an informed participant or not. I would need to consult further
> >   with UC General Counsel for a detailed answer, but the spirit is that
> >   the license overreaches in its commitments to patent rights beyond
> >   what the university is willing to do.
> 
> That seems strange. So UCSD will want to retain the right to sue users
> of DOLFIN if you should happen to add code to DOLFIN that infringes on
> some patent held by UCSD?

I have no clue what it means. But I will ask.

> > Are there any others that have got a similare answer?
> 
> No problems so far. Here's what we have so far:
> 
>   http://www.fenicsproject.org/pub/copyright/authors/
>   http://www.fenicsproject.org/pub/copyright/institutions/

I guess the Cambridge statement is not correct?

Johan

> --
> Anders
> 
> > Johan
> > 
> > On Tuesday February 1 2011 08:44:01 you wrote:
> > > Dear contributors to the FEniCS Project,
> > > 
> > > As discussed earlier on the mailing list, we are going to collect
> > > copyright consent forms for all material produced by the FEniCS
> > > Project.
> > > 
> > > We do this for two reasons:
> > > 
> > > 1. Relicensing of all software under the GNU LGPL v3 (or later).
> > > 
> > > 2. As a protection against authors and/or employers that may want to
> > > revoke code contributed to the FEniCS Project in the future.
> > > 
> > > What we need from you is to download the following two forms:
> > >   Author consent form
> > >   Institution consent form
> > > 
> > > from http://www.fenicsproject.org/pub/copyright/forms/
> > > 
> > > Then sign and send the forms (by regular mail) to
> > > 
> > >   Johannes Ring
> > >   Simula Research Laboratory
> > >   PO Box 134
> > >   1325 Lysaker
> > >   Norway
> > > 
> > > Johannes will administer the collection of the forms. Scanned copies
> > > of all signed forms will be made available on the FEniCS web site.
> > > 
> > > Note that only one Institution consent form needs to be signed for
> > > each institution (if there are multiple authors employed by the same
> > > institution).
> > > 
> > > We would like to have the forms as soon as possible, preferrably
> > > within 2 weeks (Feb 15) so that we have time to relicense all the
> > > software for the upcoming release of FEniCS 1.0 (in March).
> > > 
> > > Direct any questions to me or to the mailing list.