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[RELICENCE] Adopt the MIT licence for future contributions to python-ldap
* Adopt the MIT licence for future contributions - Add LICENCE.MIT for all contributions from July 2021 onward - Explain the licencing situation - Start a list of people who agree to relicence their past contributions to MIT #417
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LICENCE.MIT

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The MIT License applies to contributions committed after July 1st, 2021, and
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to all contributions by the following authors:
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* ​A. Karl Kornel
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* Alex Willmer
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* Aymeric Augustin
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* Bernhard M. Wiedemann
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* Bradley Baetz
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* Éloi Rivard
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* Eyal Cherevatzki
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* Fred Thomsen
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* Ivan A. Melnikov
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* johnthagen
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* Jonathon Reinhart
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* Jon Dufresne
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* Martin Basti
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* Marti Raudsepp
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* Miro Hrončok
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* Petr Viktorin
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* Pieterjan De Potter
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* Raphaël Barrois
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* Robert Kuska
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* Stanislav Láznička
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* Tobias Bräutigam
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* Tom van Dijk
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* William Brown
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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MIT License
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Copyright (c) 2021 python-ldap contributors
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
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SOFTWARE.

README

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Thanks! We may have missed someone: please mail us if we have omitted
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your name.
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Licence
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The python-ldap project comes with a LICENCE file.
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We are aware that its text is unclear, but it cannot be changed:
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all authors of python-ldap would need to approve the licence change,
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but a complete list of all the authors is not available.
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(Note that the Git repository of the project is incomplete.
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Furthermore, commits imported from CVS lack authorship information; users
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"stroeder" or "leonard" are commiters (reviewers), but sometimes not
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authors of the committed code.)
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The current maintainers assume that the license is the sentence that refers
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to "Python-style license" and assume this means a highly permissive open source
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license that only requires preservation of the text of the LICENCE file
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(including the disclaimer paragraph).
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All contributions committed since July 1st, 2021, as well as some past
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contributions, are licensed under the MIT license.
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The MIT licence and more details are listed in the file LICENCE.MIT.

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