On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:40:08AM +0000, Chris Morley wrote: > > I find it interesting and important that > everyone know the overal ideology.
This is a tough question because there is no "overall" ideology. There may or may not be a "prevalent" ideology. The EMC project is at least on its second "generation" of developers. There will probably be a third "generation" in the future too. The various parts were written by various people. Some we still have contact with, some we don't. The parts have various licenses. This bothers/worries some people but that doesn't make it possible to sweep through and change the licenses to what we want, because the files' copyrights are held by their authors. It is why (for instance) we can't go through and change GPL2 licenses to GPL3. It is certainly true that the variations make the rules for interfacing non-free code to EMC2 complex, and the rules are different depending at what level you want to interface. The fact remains that the licenses say what they say, and those are the rules we will live by. The choices to use the GPL2 in the files where it's used were made in the past, and in a practical sense those decisions are pretty well set. To change licenses we would need to get together the author(s) and subsequent contributors to those files, and get them to all agree to change it. Chances are this would not be successful. It seems to me that Leslie N is extremely cognizant of the issues (his summary was very good) and he will be able to choose a solution that works for him and his software, or he will find that he cannot, and then will not. There is no point to wondering if a different license would make his job easier or harder. There is also little point to hearing everyone's opinions about whether GPL2 is the right license for the parts of the code that currently use it, since that is not something we can affect. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
