The problem with it given a license is that there are 42 contributors and everyone needs to agree to the adding of the license. So we should have added a license from the beginning, but can't add it now. The license for single files has been added because it's either from a different source or (I think) it is useful for other projects and people should have the possibility to reuse it.

However the philosophy behind the project is clearly that we want pull requests to improve LaTeXTools.

So I ran git log --pretty="%an/%cn, %ae/%cn" | sort | uniq:

1. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log/#_pretty_formats

And found the 46 names, which contributed with commits. Therefore we need everybody to reply here stating whether agree with a open source license for this project. Added them to the first post.

I agree with an open source license for this project.

31 | @florian | omniearth/omniearth

I'm fairly certain that's not me, I'm not sure what omniearth is supposed to be and I don't recall contributing to this project.
I'm also not listed on https://github.com/SublimeText/LaTeXTools/graphs/contributors, although that's just commits in the master branch.

Totally behind this - but it would be worth specifying which open source licence you want to add to the repo. There are a number of them and they grant different rights.

If there are sections of code that have been incorporated from other projects, then a given licence might not be compatible (if those projects have less permissive licences).

The only one mentioned explicitly above is the MIT licence, which is a very permissive licence, so that's good news.

i don't think this is me. i believe, i never contributed to this project.

The best place to look for contributors is probably the README. The list above seems to have a few issues. For instance, I am listed several times, sometimes with the wrong handle and sometimes with the right handle but the wrong name :)

Anyway, I am of course all in favor of open-sourcing the plugin. It was totally my mistake not to do this from day one. I actually assumed that MIT licensing was the default for public projects. That's not the case.

However, some of the contributed code may have specific licenses.

sure 👍

Wow, long time ago I added 20 Lines or so to this project.

Shure, go ahead and add a license. Not shure which one would fit best...

I also agree with adding an open source license for this project.

Sure, I'm ok with an open source license for this project.

You can put any license you want on my contribution.

Sure, I agree with an open source license for this project

Any license is fine with me

I also agree with any open source license.

Great idea! I agree with any open-source license.

I will magnanimously allow my contribution, a correction of a typo in the readme, to be used by any and all in whatever manner they choose. Any open source license will do.

@evandrocoan I've never contributed to this project. I believe you meant @cantonios based on the contributors list.

Sorry for some mistakes on the names, when I ran the command I got not all names correctly,
so I tried to manually fix it, but seems I made some mistakes. This is the original output from git:

git log --pretty="%an/%cn, %ae/%cn" | sort | uniq
 1. Afri/GitHub, 5chdn<at>users.noreply.github.com/GitHub
 2. Andre Rein/Andre Rein, ra<at>ra23.net/Andre Rein
 3. Antonio Sanchez/Antonio Sanchez, antonio<at>panthera.ca/Antonio Sanchez
 4. Antonio Sánchez/Antonio Sánchez, antonio<at>panthera.ca/Antonio Sánchez
 5. Boris Zhou/Boris Zhou, bobo1239<at>web.de/Boris Zhou
 6. btstream/btstream, btstream<at>gmail.com/btstream
 7. btstream/btstream, btstream<at>hotmail.com/btstream
 8. btstream/Ian, btstream<at>gmail.com/Ian
 9. DaiZW/DaiZW, nonnullpointer<at>gmail.com/DaiZW
10. Daniel Fleischhacker/Daniel Fleischhacker, fleischhacker.daniel<at>gmail.com/Daniel Fleischhacker
11. danschrage/danschrage, danschrage<at>gmail.com/danschrage
12. deterenkelt/GitHub, deterenkelt<at>users.noreply.github.com/GitHub
13. Ed Doddridge/Ed Doddridge, edoddridge<at>gmail.com/Ed Doddridge
14. evandrocoan/evandrocoan, evandrocoan<at>hotmail.com/evandrocoan
15. Florian Zimmermann/Florian Zimmermann, flo<at>chaos-wg.net/Florian Zimmermann
16. Hannes Kaeufler/Hannes Kaeufler, hannes.kaeufler<at>gmail.com/Hannes Kaeufler
17. HughParsonage/GitHub, hugh.parsonage<at>gmail.com/GitHub
18. Hui Sun/Hui Sun, sunhuijim<at>gmail.com/Hui Sun
19. Ian/Ian, ig0774<at>gmail.com/Ian
20. ig0774/GitHub, ig0774<at>users.noreply.github.com/GitHub
21. ig0774/ig0774, ig0774<at>users.noreply.github.com/ig0774
22. Ilya Uvarenkov/Ilya Uvarenkov, trukanduk<at>gmail.com/Ilya Uvarenkov
23. James Brooks/James Brooks, ukjbrooks<at>gmail.com/James Brooks
24. Jeff Spencer/Ian, jeffspencerd<at>gmail.com/Ian
25. Jeremy Jay/Jeremy Jay, jeremy<at>pbnjay.com/Jeremy Jay
26. Josef Friedrich/Josef Friedrich, josef<at>friedrich.rocks/Josef Friedrich
27. Joseph Weigl/Joseph Weigl, joseph.weigl<at>gmail.com/Joseph Weigl
28. Juerg Rast/Juerg Rast, juergr<at>gmail.com/Juerg Rast
29. Lucas Nanni/Lucas Nanni, lucasnanni<at>gmail.com/Lucas Nanni
30. Mads Mobæk/Mads Mobæk, mads86<at>gmail.com/Mads Mobæk
31. Marciano Siniscalchi/Marciano Siniscalchi, margie<at>Marcianos-MacBook-Pro.local/Marciano Siniscalchi
32. Marciano Siniscalchi/Marciano Siniscalchi, msiniscalchi<at>gmail.com/Marciano Siniscalchi
33. Marciano Siniscalchi/Richard Stein, msiniscalchi<at>gmail.com/Richard Stein
34. Maximilian Berger/Maximilian Berger, snowdragon92<at>gmail.com/Maximilian Berger
35. Michael Walter/GitHub, michael.walter<at>gmail.com/GitHub
36. Mikey Saugstad/GitHub, michaelssaugstad<at>gmail.com/GitHub
37. msiniscalchi/msiniscalchi, msiniscalchi<at>gmail.com/msiniscalchi
38. omniearth/omniearth, florian<at>slurm.(none)/omniearth
39. Peter Eichinger/Peter Eichinger, peter.eichinger<at>gmail.com/Peter Eichinger
40. Piotr Kaz´mierczak/Piotr Kaz´mierczak, piotrkazmierczak<at>me.com/Piotr Kaz´mierczak
41. Rafael Lerm/Rafael Lerm, rafaellerm<at>gmail.com/Rafael Lerm
42. Ray Fang/Ray Fang, i<at>lazarusx.com/Ray Fang
43. Richard Stein/GitHub, r-stein.github<at>web.de/GitHub
44. Richard Stein/Richard Stein, r-stein.github<at>web.de/Richard Stein
45. Scott Kuroda/Scott Kuroda, scott.kuroda<at>gmail.com/Scott Kuroda
46. Sean Zhu/Sean Zhu, interestinglythere<at>gmail.com/Sean Zhu
47. Sergey Slipchenko/Sergey Slipchenko, faergeek<at>gmail.com/Sergey Slipchenko
48. Stefan Ollinger/Stefan Ollinger, Stefan.Ollinger<at>gmx.de/Stefan Ollinger
49. Tobias Diez/GitHub, tobiasdiez<at>gmx.de/GitHub
50. Tobias Schmidt/Tobias Schmidt, royalts<at>gmail.com/Tobias Schmidt
51. Ulrich Gabor/Ulrich Gabor, ulrich.thomas.gabor<at>googlemail.com/Ulrich Gabor
52. Wallace Wu/Wallace Wu, cwwwu<at>uwaterloo.ca/Wallace Wu
53. Wes Campaigne/Wes Campaigne, westacular<at>gmail.com/Wes Campaigne
54. William Ledoux/William Ledoux, william.ledoux<at>gmail.com/William Ledoux
55. williamledoux/williamledoux, william.ledoux<at>gmail.com/williamledoux

I am applying a Hooray to each reply I already counted/looked into and fixed the mistake.

I agree with any open-source license for my minuscule contribution.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute my contribution to this repository ("the software") either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, I dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. I make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of my heirs and successors. I intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law.

I agree with any open source license for my contribution

@evandrocoan Thanks for you effort. We may also use the contributors page https://github.com/SublimeText/LaTeXTools/graphs/contributors I don't think we need the agreement of people who changed single lines of code (the changes may even not be in the project anymore).

Updated mine, of course I agree :)

I'm thrilled to find myself on top of that list and I agree with any free software license for my 5 characters of contribution :-D

I also agree with licensing this project under any open source license :)

I also agree with any license for my contribution.

Just seeing this now, I agree

I agree with any open source license!

I guess this message will ping everyone's mailboxes, for which I apologize in advance. I am working on a different LaTeX-related project, and I wanted to use some of the code from here initially, but have now stumbled upon this issue. A bit bummed to see that since 2018, nothing changed. I mean, the project itself starts to look abandoned: 355 issues and no commits for more than a year.

I was wondering if it still would be possible to get this to the end. Perhaps, email the other contributors individually? Or track down their commits and, if they do not respond and the commits aren't too critical for the project, roll them back?

It'd be a shame if a project this big and this excellent (I use it every day and I love it!) would stay open-code, but not open-source. @evandrocoan any ideas how we may “resurrect” this issue?

Of 46 authors, 39 agreed here to add a license. You look into these 7 missing folks and see what code they contributed is and if it too much to be reversed and rewritten. These may be small commits and could be removed and rewritten.

Hello to all those who haven't been tagged here before.

We are reaching out to you because you have contributed code to this project (https://github.com/SublimeText/LaTeXTools), which at the time didn't have an open-source license. As such, by the GitHub TOS, one cannot modify your code your “without the danger/liability of being prosecuted by violating the All rights reserved copyright granted by Berne convention law.”

Most of the contributors have accepted changing the license to the MIT License (see the proposed license text at the top of the issue).

If you agree that this project becomes open-source too, please, reply to this issue with something along the lines of: “I agree to re-license my code under the terms of the MIT License”. This can be done by just replying to this email, too.

People, who have contributed their code to the project AND whose code is still in the project AND haven't replied to this issue yet, along with their commits:

• Hadi Safari (@hadisfr)
  • 27519ca handle UnicodeDecodeError in cwls
  • 3a65bf0 add support of #include: in cwl files
  • 7fd465a fix some pep8 incompatibilities
  • 80e78f7 Merge branch 'version4' into enhance_cwl_support
• Stefan Ollinger (@dozed)
  • ef86e75 Added linux configuration and fix for ctypes exception.
  • aa52701 Added linux default keymap.
  • 5b33ba3 Re-added ctypes import.
• Crypto Jerônimo (@crypto-jeronimo)
  • 27b944b Fix typos, spelling and remove extra whitespace.
  • 340cfa4 More typo fixes, spelling and removal of extra whitespace.
• Vince Vu (@vqv):
  • 6fe2473 Added command for toggling starred version of surrounding environment
  • 2284c09 Added check for empty new_regions and safe detection of star. ...
• Allan L. R. Hansen (@AllanLRH):
  • a7c301e Added github-links to the .sublime-completions
• Charles Baynham (@charlesbaynham):
  • 16ec7bf Fix bug where unfinished lines were not being detected
• Eric Taylor (@ericjtaylor):
  • 089ad59 Fixed a small typo in the install docs (Fixed a small typo in the install docs #1510)
• Hui Sun (@JimAmuro):
  • 2c0ecee fix trigger toggle for \epsilon and \varepsilon
• Randy Lai (@randy3k):
  • 7f5a783 blackslash is now handled correctly in sublime text 4 (blackslash is now handled correctly in sublime text 4 #1454)
• Rens Baardman (@rensbaardman):
  • b27fc39 Fix error message when jumping to pdf from non-.tex-file (Fix error message when jumping to pdf from non-.tex-file #1472)
• Tongzhou Wang (@ssnl):
  • f6c0dbe copy_on_build should not fail on nonexistent extensions (copy_on_build should not fail on nonexistent extensions #1502)
• assombrance (@assombrance):
  • 21d3bcc typo fix for subscript snippet (typo fix for subscript snippet #1534)
• david (@daviehh):
  • 6a4ca21 fix parsing for "Incomplete \if...; all text was ignored after line"
• Florian Mueller (@omniearth):
  • 7c0b8db Added snippets for creating a figure and for a table, as well as completions for the Beamer package
• victorkwan (@victorkwan):
  • edaa630 Update README.markdown (Fixes a typo in the README. #1306)
• wdyggh (@wdyggh):
  • 45e428d Fix an encoding issue when looking for ImageMagick (Fix an encoding issue when looking for ImageMagick #1515)

These are the only people left that we need the permission from. @evandrocoan could you add those to your checklist at the top?

Hi!
I agree and would be glad to re-license my codes in the LaTeX tools Sublime Text plugin project under the terms of the MIT License, or any other open source licence.

I agree to re-license my code under the terms of the MIT License.

I agree to re-license my code under the terms of the MIT License

I'm very happy for my contributions to be licensed under MIT or any other widely accepted open source license. Thank you to the maintainers for taking such care.

Thanks for organizing, I agree to re-license my code under the terms of the MIT License.

Just chiming in to say I'm very happy to see this is happening!

I agree to re-license my code under the terms of the MIT License

Hi @kytta, I updated my first post and created a pull-request adding the proposed MIT license: #1570. I extended my list with the new names you added and marked all posts.

For a more organized way, anyone agreeing with the open-source license can go to the pull-request #1570, and hit the review now button at the sidebar, as shown in the following image, and type I agree with this license for my code. as the pull-request view message:

I agree to re-license my code under the terms of the MIT License.

I agree to re-license my code under the terms of the MIT License, and I'm glad to see this change :)