<div dir="ltr">This discussion has been taken to the OMC mailing list (where it continues) rather than the openssl-project list as it goes across previous team decisions.<div>An update once that discussion completes will be sent to the openssl-project list.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tim.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:22 AM, Salz, Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsalz@akamai.com" target="_blank">rsalz@akamai.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For some background you can take a look at
<a href="https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5499" target="_blank">https://github.com/openssl/<wbr>openssl/pull/5499</a> and the blog posts here:
<a href="https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/categories/license/" target="_blank">https://www.openssl.org/blog/<wbr>blog/categories/license/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The OMC voted in 2014 to work to an eventual change of license to Apache 2. That led to the CLA’s. We had calls with various open source folks who we thought could help us. This include Max Sills from the
Google open source office, Gervais Markham who led the Mozilla relicensing effort, someone from GitHub (to talk about CLA automation), and probably another person who I am forgetting. We also talked with our legal counsel, Mishi Choudhary of the Software
Freedom Law Center.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Around 2Q 3Q 2015 the discussions were completed, and we had coalesced around a plan. There was no formal OMC vote (it was called the openssl-team at that point). But there were no objections. OMC members
can skim the archives, starting around July 2015 if they need to refresh their memories.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The key points of the plan are<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li class="m_8765303455042756571MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Move to Apache license<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_8765303455042756571MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Require CLA’s from all contributors<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_8765303455042756571MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Reach out to everyone we can identify and get them to approve of the change, or not<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_8765303455042756571MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Have a uniform copyright in all source files that points to the license and authors separately, for easier maintenance<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The “removing some code” blog post gives more details about the scripts we developed and what code we removed. Since then, nobody else has asked for their code to be removed.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The file/copyright changes happened during the 1.1.0 release.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We’re on the verge of being able to change the license, and as we said in our last press release, we are hoping and planning to do that for 1.1.1<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The PR that marks part of this has a -1 from Tim, which is a hold. That means we have to discuss and the OMC vote on this. This email is intended to give the background and start the discussion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So what are your objections Tim, and what do you want to see done differently? And also, please explain why it is better than the current plan.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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