Sorry, I should have replied earlier. I will confess that I'm not so familiar with the pros and cons of different licenses.
So long as I am personally protected is the only issue to me. I have no objection for a subproject of ArgoUML having a different licence so long as that offers me the same level of protection should I contribute to it. Regards Bob. On 24/09/2007, Gunderson, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Linus, > > > > Should we wait longer for input on others on having a GPL sub-project? It > would be good if we could be part of the ArgoUML community. > > > > Jeff > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linus Tolke > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [argouml-dev] argouml-sql > > > > > Hello Jeff! > > > > > > > The license questions are always complicated. > > > > > > The purpose of requiring the BSD license is to allow for companies to take > ArgoUML, make additions and market the resulting product. We could accept > that this is not possible for the SQL plug-in or for a specific SQL plug-in > and still allow the other parts of the infrastructure (since GPL is accepted > by Tigris). > > > > > > Perhaps it is then best to keep the two separate implementations. One with > the BSD license, that we hope all database engine manufacturers will pick > up, improve for their RDBMS and market together with their RDBMS-product. > One GPL version that we hope all database engine manufacturers will suggest > improvements for as they see their users using it. Which of these scenarios > that is the most likely to be successful is hard to say. It probably depends > more on the developers involved than on the choice of policy. > > > > > > Let me just ask all developers: > > > Is there any reason, not to take in a GPLed subproject in the ArgoUML > project? > > > > > > /Linus > > > > > 2007/9/18, Gunderson, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I was hoping this could be a sub-project of ArgoUML so that we could use the > infrastructure of the ArgoUML but it looks like all sub-projects must be > under the BSD license. Can you please verify? > > > > We must use the GPL license. > > > > Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
