On Nov 21 2012 7:28 AM, John Kasunich wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 09:18 AM, EBo wrote: >> I'm not on the board, but my 2c is LGPL (most expansive possible >> 0.1+) >> all libraries, and GPL (0.1+) all high level interfaces. Them's my >> 2c >> >> I would not suggest tabling the code writing, but you are correct -- >> the licensing issue needs to be addresed, and frankly I thought it >> had >> been addressed properly already... >> >> So, if you start with hal... Find the author(s) and make sure that >> a >> 2+ is OK. Working on that can continue as work on the code is >> continuing (that is unless you think you need to scrap the hole lib >> and >> start over)... >> > > I'm the original author of HAL, but there have been many others over > the years. I'm OK with LGPL 2+ for public interfaces and GPL 2+ for > code. But as I understand it, all the contributors would have to > agree. > > I am not a license lawyer and I have no intention of ever becoming > one. This email is about as deep as I want to get in that area.
;-) What little I have read makes some of the issues confusing... If everyone who contributed agrees, then there is no problem. If we demonstrate a best faith effort then that is the best we can do. So, if someone can splunk the archives for names of contributers and try to contact them. That would be good. Also, to help make sure this does not happen again, lcnc needs to have a "contributers guidelines" in place which states the expectations moving forward. If we do those things, that is likely the best we can do. If we miss someone and they come back and cry foul, then the most appropriate action is to remove their code and find a functional replacement -- basically the maintainers moved forward, and old contributions which are found to be incompatible with future needs are removed and replaced. EBo -- EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
