Hi, Please see this notice from the Georgia Public Library Service regarding relicensing OpenNCIP from the GPL v2 to the GPL v2+. As you can see, I am seeking confirmation from other copyright holders to approve the license change. As we all know, Koha currently embeds a fork of OpenNCIP. To assist with ending that situation so that Koha just uses OpenNCIP as a normal Perl dependency, I also call on any individuals and companies who have contributed patches to Koha's fork to express their willingness to have their code incorporated in a GPL2+ OpenNCIP. Regards, Galen ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com> Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notice of Change to License for OpenNCIP To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Cc: Dan Scott <dan@coffeecode.net> Hi Elizabeth, On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:57 PM, McKinney, Elizabeth wrote:

Evergreen and other Open Source Community Members,

The Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) is the primary copyright holder on OpenNCIP.  The source code can be found at the following sites:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openncip/ https://github.com/atz/SIPServer

As the director of the PINES program, I want to notify you that GPLS is permitting the change of the license of OpenNCIP from the GNU Public License version 2 to the GNU Public License version 2 or later in order to give it the same license that Evergreen uses.  This will facilitate easier code sharing between OpenNCIP and Evergreen and thus benefit the Evergreen community.

Feel free to distribute this notice as needed.

Thank you for this.  I confirm on behalf of Equinox that we are also willing to relicense any OpenNCIP code that we hold copyright on to the GPL version 2 or later. Based on the change logs, the following individuals may have individual copyright on portions of OpenNCIP.  I now call on each of them to either approve the license change, object, or disclaim copyright interest. Joe Atzberger David Fiander Dan Scott If anybody is aware of other individuals with a copyright interest in the OpenNCIP code, please pass this request on to them. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Data Services Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source email:  gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 352-215-7548 skype:  gmcharlt web:    http://www.esilibrary.com/ -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt@gmail.com