Hi, 2014-12-03 22:59 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Baccelli <emmanuel.bacce...@inria.fr>: > > […] > > But in the first place, we would like to debate this topic. In particular: > is anyone violently opposing the idea of migrating to a less restrictive > license, such as BSD? If so, why? On the other hand, if you explicitly > support the license change, feel free to indicate this as well. Please send > your opinion to the list before Dec. 10th. >
Sorry for coming in late into the discussion, but I'm still quite undecided on that topic, mainly because my expertise in free software and open culture licenses (apart from CC License which is quite transparent) is not that great to begin with. Fact is, everytime I speak with Free Software/Open Source people more assured in that matter than me, no one really understands the fear of (L)GPL in the industry. I can't find any argument against it either, apart from the irrational arguments allegedly introduced by some lawyers. I also don't have much intuition on how a license change would change the community, but personally I'm far more interested in input from hobbyists and start-ups than from the big players. Maybe its quite naïve, but I believe that with enough traction from the former we could attract the latter, even without a license change. If a license change would attract more of the former too, I can't really tell. I trust however the Emmanuel's et al. opinion in the matter, that this might be the case. If a license change is due I won't stand against it, but I would prefer MIT over a BSD license. Cheers, Martine
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