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Re: [tor-bugs] #7566 [Stem]: add close_circuit method to Controller
#7566: add close_circuit method to Controller
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Reporter: robinson | Owner: atagar
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Stem | Version:
Keywords: controller circuit test | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by atagar):
> No, I prefer LGPLv3 for my submissions.
Drats. On one hand I'm glad to see you say this. All of my projects (stem,
arm, and prior work) have been under the GPL/LGPL and it's nice to see you
take an interest in your work staying in that space. On the other hand I'm
the only tor developer that puts his stuff under the GPL with the
exception of vidalia, so this complicates things.
Personally I'd love to just ignore licensing concerns. They're a headache
and soak up time I'd rather be coding. But the rest of the tor project
uses BSD, and unforeseen future projects that might want to borrow our
code could be Apache or something else. After talking with Wendy, a lawyer
with the tor project, it sounds like the simplest method of keeping
flexibility in the future is for an individual to have the copyright over
the whole codebase. That can be done either by copyright assignment,
putting stuff into the public domain, or the CC0...
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0
> However, I am willing to assign my copyright on stem submissions to the
Tor Project, if the project has a method to accept such assignments.
I'd like for the tor project to have stem's copyright if one of these
Seattle buses finally do me in. However, I'm not really sure how that
would work in practice (would decision making require waiting for tor's
board? executive director? something else?). I presently have the
copyright, both to keep it simple and since... well, I wrote 99% of the
codebase. I certainly understand if you don't want to assign copyright to
me. But until someone steps up to really co-author the project (which I'd
really, really love to see happen!) I'd rather avoid the headache of
complicating the project's copyright.
How would you like to proceed? I can revert your patches if you'd like,
but I'd really hate to see legal stuff get in the way of making the
library better.
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