MIT License?

[xied75]

Dear Team,

Given the whole .NET world is now MIT, any chance this great lib could also change to that?

[christophwille]

This is currently also discussed in pull request #101

[McNeight]

The following PRs were originally merged without MIT license assignment, and the checked PRs now have MIT license assignment from the author:

• Fix compilation of samples/vb/minibzip2 project #1 by @linquize (2 lines in 1 file)
• Small clean-up #4 by @Mailaender (2 lines in 1 file, and 2 deleted files)
• pkgconfig support #7 by @Mailaender (8 lines in one new file)
• Update LzwInputStream.cs #10 by @RobThree (1 line in 1 file)
• Update ZipFile.cs to correct the zip specification version. #53 by @novn2013 (1 line in 1 file)
• Fix ArgumentException from Encoding::GetEncoding() in creating a ZipFile #64 by @hypersw (10 lines in 1 file)
• Fix handling of paths on Linux and Mac (issue #54) #65 by @ermshiperete and @hultqvist (16 lines in 6 files)
• Allow the project file to be added to a VS 2013 solution #66 by @benjamb (1 line in 1 file)

[hultqvist]

Do the listed PR contain enough to qualify for copyright and thus need the assignments. Looking at my own contribution (i changed the case in a few filenames) can't possibly reach verkshöjd(can't bother to translate) to be covered by copyright.

Although if you want me to take any legal action I will happily contact a lawyer and pass on the bill to you.

[McNeight]

Peter,

Inget behov av rättsliga åtgärder. Tack för att svara, och tack för ditt bidrag.

-Neil

[christophwille]

Good morning,

I am the "all things administrative red tape guy" on the SharpDevelop team. Some background on why we now want to (finally) take SharpZipLib to MIT - and action items.

@McNeight has joined as the new maintainer for SharpZipLib, and in the process of discussing with the old maintainers @jfreilly and @davidpierson somewhat obviously the license topic came up (and I can tell everybody that it was/is a pain to me too just by looking at the inbox on how many questions I got over the years just on license clarification).

Now, SharpZipLib started out of part of SharpDevelop, and with SharpDevelop we required JCAs (please see https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop/wiki/Joining-the-Team). We want to get to exactly the same point with SharpZipLib, and so we want to go the following route:

• The maintainer (@McNeight in this case) has a JCA on file. Check.
• All PRs (that qualify as a patch) have the MIT/assignment paragraph from https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop/wiki/Joining-the-Team as part of it. This issue is the thread for it.
• The original port is cleaned up (which is necessary technically anyways)

About the PR part: usually in SharpDevelop we had the notion of "more than five lines" that needed a JCA. Which for the PRs @McNeight listed applies only to a few then, however, we would love that everyone adds the MIT paragraph to their past contributions (comment to the original PR). For documentation purposes and, basically, we want to be a good OSS community citizen as always.

Once that is done, we will have a contributing.md that reflects the "joing the team" document of SharpDevelop. Read: PRs come with that paragraph for documentation purposes (we want to do away with the paperwork (even digital)).

@Mailaender, @hypersw, @ermshiperete and @hultqvist: could you please amend your past PRs with

I certify that I own, and have sufficient rights to contribute, all source code and related material intended to be compiled or integrated with the source code for the SharpZipLib open source product (the "Contribution"). My Contribution is licensed under the MIT License.

All others mentioned by @McNeight - not strictly required but we would love you to do that too.

Thank you in helping us make the license of SharpZipLib easy & palatable to an even broader audience!

[Mailaender]

Yeah sure, although I guess my contributions are somehow insignificant.

[McNeight]

I would like to merge the following PRs once we have an MIT license assignment from the original author, and the checked PRs now have MIT license assignment from the author:

• Tolerate 0-value (missing) local size headers. #18 by @hempels (5 lines in 1 file)
• Fixed objectdisposedexception Issue #68 #69 by @Ezghoul (2 lines in 1 file)
• problem with minizip implementation #74 by @konstantingolovanov (26 lines in 1 file)
• Closes #41 - Do not fail when local header compressed size equals to 0 #76 by @bbenoist (2 lines in 1 file)
• Add new FastZip.ExtractZip overload with lambda file and directory fi… #83 by @depend86 (64 lines in 1 file)
• the stream is not seek-able, access to Length should return exception #84 by @kkguo (2 lines in 1 file)
• Fix severe perf degradation reading Stored file in Mono #85 by @pldg (5 lines in 1 file)
• Fix tar long names #86 by @creker (7 lines in 2 files)
• Multiple tweaks and bugfixes #93 by @bastianeicher (102 lines in 6 files)
• Bugfix/unicode Unicode File/Directory Support #96 by @aviranco (34 lines in 1 file)

[konstantingolovanov]

Yes sure.