Verify flot-axislabels 2.0 is MIT for all contributors

[mritzman]

Hi Mark Cote, Xuan Luo, stdexcept, Clemens Stolle and Michael Haddon,

My name is Matthew Ritzman. We would like to use your flot-axislabels plugin for a product we are developing. Due to the fact the original version of flot-axislabels was licensed as GPLv3, our legal team requires us to confirm with you and all the contributors in writing that you are all Ok that the license is MIT for flot-axislabels. Thank you for your time.

Regards,
Matthew Ritzman

[markrcote]

I think that it is unnecessary to contact me, since you can verify that
I added the license in commit 8714ea6
on 5 April 2012, following the original author's change in commit
a0d11e5 to his repo on the same day.

Regardless, yes, I purposefully switched to MIT after getting
confirmation from the original author, Xuan Luo, that he was okay with
it as well. I've pasted that email below for your reference, in case you
are unable to contact him.

Mark

Sure. I just changed the file.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Mark Côté mcote@mozilla.com wrote:

Hi, I hope I have the right Xuan Luo, the author of the flot-axislabels
plug-in (https://github.com/xuanluo/flot-axislabels). If not please
disregard this email.

I realize you haven't touched that plug-in in a long time, but I was
wondering if you would consider adding another, more permissive license,
such as MIT, to your plug-in. I'm the author of a heavily modified fork of
flot-axislabels (https://github.com/markrcote/flot-axislabels) which is
getting an increasing amount of attention. Given that I was not the primary
author, my fork retains the GPLv3 license from yours. However I've realized
that, due to the nature of JavaScript plug-ins, I believe that anyone using
the flot-axislabels plug-in would have to license their entire application
under the GPL or a compatible license. Given that flot itself is under the
MIT license, which has (to my knowledge) no such "viral" aspects, I think it
would be nice if I could release my plug-in under a similar license.

Thanks very much for making the plug-in in the first place.

Mark Côté
Software Developer
Mozilla Automation & Tools

On 2014-02-26, 11:47 AM, mritzman wrote:

Hi Mark,
My name is Matthew Ritzman. We would like to use your flot-axislabels
plugin for a product we are developing. Due to the fact the original
version of flot-axislabels was licensed as GPLv3, our legal team
requires us to confirm with you and all the contributors in writing
that you are all Ok that the license is MIT for flot-axislabels. Thank
you for your time.

Regards,
Matthew Ritzman

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[mritzman]

Thanks Mark for the response, your response is what our legal team needed even though they could see the commits themselves.