Usage conditions on JWasm Manual and code base, regarding OpenWatcom relicensing effort

[ecm-pushbx]

The definitive document on the OpenWatcom relicensing effort appears to be this wiki page, which had some activity as recently as 2023: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/wiki/Relicensing-effort

Quoting a part of that:

SAP are willing to relicense their own contributions under the Apache License, v2.0. Sebastian Wolf from SAP reached out to the community, to say such. This is important, because Sybase/SAP’s code is the original basis for Open Watcom. SAP will likely grant addition permissions, [...] probably the LLVM Exceptions.

Would you be willing to grant the same usage conditions, Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions, to all your contributions to JWasm and JWlink? If so, I'd appreciate it if you made a definitive statement to that end.

In a very cursory glance at the sources I noticed that some files already contain Public Domain dedications. However, the JWasm Manual contains this section:

10. License

This manual was written by Andreas Grech ( aka Japheth ). It may be redistributed as long as it is free of charge.

This dedication is not free software / open source compatible. Would you reconsider and perhaps also provide the manual under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions?

[ecm-pushbx]

I posted a notification to their thread at open-watcom/open-watcom-v2#271 (comment)

[iainnicol]

lol, @ecm-pushbx. I was going to reply saying: nice idea, but don't forget to ask other contributors such as Japheth, who forked Watcom WASM into JWasm. I didn't immediately realise Baron-von-Riedesel is a pseudonym for the same person!

However, if you'll pardon my pedantry (sorry)... It would also be good to seek permission from, well, anybody who has contributed more than 10 lines of code. There's a list of pre-GitHub contributors here

JWasm/Html/Readme.html

Line 176 in dbeeaf6

These people contributed to JWasm ( additions, bugfixes, bug reports):

However, that list will be longer than necessary, because not everybody contributed code. So 🤷.