Frederic Lehobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... >> Yes! Please write to Steven Watt. I think it would definitely >> help if it is clear to Steven that many people would like to >> have Aldor open source. Maybe what we need is a kind of >> "petition" that people could "sign" and email to him. I fear >> that perhaps Steven does not take my claims that this is >> desired by many people very seriously. > > I would never do such a thing. I consider it harassment and very > childish.
I think there's a misunderstanding here. There is a big difference between one person waiting and a community of people waiting for something. Letting Steven Watt know that there is a community waiting for a potential relicensing of Aldor is not only a reasonable thing to do, it could be argued that not letting him know would be a disservice to Axiom. I think it goes without saying that anything sent to him would be friendly and cordial. > I have the greatest respect (and recognition) for people > contributing to free software by putting the software they have > rights on under any free software license. If Steven Watt belongs > to such people is his own choice (if even he has such a choice) and > I respect everybody's choice whatever is this choice. Nobody is suggesting it isn't his choice. That doesn't mean we can't respectfully ask that he make a particular choice. > I am very sad for people from the Axiom community to give such a > message as `we have such a good free software that we are willing to > drop it for an other replacement, please open source this possible > substitute'. This is an improvement, not a replacement, for Axiom. I think the only message being sent is that we want to improve Axiom as much as possible. > Thanks Tim and other contributors for the impressive work already > achieved. Keep up the good work and happy new year. Hear, hear! Jay _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
