{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/3004","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/3004/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/3004/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/3004/events","html_url":"https://github.com/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/3004","id":105587397,"number":3004,"title":"Change BuildCraft's license","user":{"login":"asiekierka","id":113514,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/113514?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka","html_url":"https://github.com/asiekierka","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/labels/awaiting%20input","name":"awaiting input","color":"009800"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/labels/challenge-accepted","name":"challenge-accepted","color":"bfe5bf"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"84b6eb"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2015-09-09T12:36:16Z","updated_at":"2015-09-09T13:03:49Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Long overdue. The MMPLv1 has a few nasty holes (one of them being very nasty and arguably making the license invalid to begin with) and is incompatible with a lot of other FOSS licenses due to at least the \"legal copy of Minecraft\" clause.\r\n\r\nSince one of our primary contributors' request was to choose a \"copyleft license with minimum lawyerspeak\", I vote for the **[Mozilla Public License 2.0](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/)**, used by Mozilla for their own projects as well as many other developers who are not okay with the GPL's high level of protection.\r\n\r\nI'm going to start calling people as I figure out what parts of the code exactly need re-licensing, but let me call some of the primary and recent contributors off memory:\r\n\r\n**PERMISSIONS AWAITING:**\r\n\r\nSpaceToad (will contact him separately)\r\n@CovertJaguar \r\n@SirSengir \r\n@cpw \r\n@Flow86 \r\n@tambry \r\n@AartBluestoke \r\n@psxlover\r\n@AEnterprise \r\n@viliml \r\n@adudney \r\n@anti344 \r\n@dmillerw \r\n@sfPlayer1 \r\n@SandGrainOne \r\n@Kubuxu \r\n@Need4Speed402 \r\n@immibis \r\n@taelnia \r\n@TarzanBuzzyMan \r\n@pahimar \r\n@davboecki \r\n@Soaryn \r\n@warlordjones \r\n@TXX59 \r\n@AbrarSyed \r\n@fabricator77 \r\n@robin4002 \r\n\r\n\r\nI need your permissions first, then I'll go through everyone involved.\r\n\r\nIf you're fairly sure you contributed to BC but are not listed above (the list is incomplete as I will be going through the list to ensure contributions no longer used are not listed, as I am only relicensing the latest BuildCraft versions - 7.0.22 and 7.1.2 and above), answer as well! I need all the permissions!\r\n\r\nPlease reply with something along the words of: \"I permit the license of my contributions to the BuildCraft project to be changed to the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.\"\r\n\r\n**PERMISSIONS GRANTED:**\r\n@asiekierka (of course)\r\n@Krapht \r\n@ganymedes01 \r\n@hea3ven \r\n\r\nA list of contributors who need further checking:\r\n* zlangbert (most of his contributions seem to be gone in modern code)\r\n* Cisien\r\n* taralx\r\n* Tinytimrob (all code from old contributions pre-1.7-specific)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/comments/138902975","html_url":"https://github.com/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/3004#issuecomment-138902975","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/3004","id":138902975,"user":{"login":"asiekierka","id":113514,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/113514?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka","html_url":"https://github.com/asiekierka","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asiekierka/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-09-09T13:03:48Z","updated_at":"2015-09-09T13:03:48Z","body":"@pahimar - the threaded BC version checker, off the top of my head. Still - even a few lines of code matter and I'd rather have the legal clear as we never had CLAs so you own your code!"}}