On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Patrick Shirkey <pshir...@boosthardware.com>wrote:
> > On Tue, August 7, 2012 12:45 pm, joe wrote: > > I'm not sure I trust the FSF on this; it has a history of exaggerating > the > > restrictiveness of the GPL. > > That's a very strange thing to say about the FSF. > We have history with them. At one time, user-written scripts and plugins were not covered by the GPL; now they supposedly are. That was a very unpleasant shock given our user base and the promises we had made to them. At one point we seriously considered ditching the GPL. > > > If we want this library, we should consult a > > lawyer to be sure. > > The FSF is pretty much a bunch of Lawyers. > Lawyers who aren't ideological, I mean. > > > Then why refer to it? It could be a propaganda site that was built by > Microsoft to further their agenda. > > It is entirely reasonable to trust the FSF about GPL compatibility > especially when discussing a Microsoft License as theere is a long history > of M$ sabotaging projects and the last thing Blender needs is to give > Microsoft an opportunity to scuttle the ship. > > I doubt that. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers