On Friday 08 March 2013 16:57:27 Matt Shaver did opine: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 11:59:44 +0000 > > andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a first step, what should I license my files as? > > This is very good of you to offer! In my own opinion, the two rational > choices are: > > 1. "GPL Version 2 OR LATER" > 2. "Public Domain" > > These provide maximum flexibility, and the choice between them in > entirely up to you, depending upon your desire (or not) to insist on a > "share, and share alike" ideal. > > For myself, as far as EMC/Linuxcnc goes, I consider myself still bound > (morally at least) to the terms of my original agreement with the > Government, so my stuff (tiny though it is) is "Public Domain". > > Before you go and do a bunch of changes and commits, maybe we should > have a discussion about what everyone else thinks. Someone might come > up with some other brilliant idea! > > Anyone? Agree? Disagree? Don't care, but want to complain anyway? :) > > Thanks, > Matt If I had an oar in this water, which I don't, I'd go with the GPL, V2 or later. That is just throwing up a bit of a fence between us and Mach. :)
OTOH, perhaps Ray Henry & maybe NIST should should be queried just for their opinion. That is if there is still any NIST code in it, which I have no clue about. I do know that Ray asked me one Sunday afternoon as some pork chops were sizzling on his grill a few feet from the water, what I thought of the direction emc was going in. I don't know yet if he was fishing for license info or, but this was a good many releases ago, 2.1 or so, and I said I was happier with every new release, it was getting better and more versatile all the time. Whether Ray thought I'd been drinking the koolaid or what, I don't know. But we and 3 of his kids sat & talked a little politics but more jobs the kids were doing, did serious damage to a 12 pack, while having some very good pork chops, baked beans & a salad. I was invited down to his shop down in Wisconsin the next morning and noted a truckload of Butternut in the corner, sawn into various sized pieces, and when I expressed an interest in some of it, he wouldn't quote me a bd foot price, just back the E350 van up to the door and start loading. I took about 1/2 the pile, the best quality half by far, and when I asked again how much, "whats it worth to you?". I reached and pulled a 50 out of my billfold & asked if he needed any more, but he wouldn't take the next 50. I brought it home, sliced up a couple of the larger pieces, milled to 1/8" thick, jointed the edges & made up about 14 bookmarked panels for my cheap kitchen cabinets door inserts. I think I got the best part of that deal & Ray apparently got rid of something that was underfoot. I don't think its structural wood at all, its soft like balsa but it sure makes nice panels. Finished with a very thinly cut (about a lb) layer of shellac, and followed by a heavily diluted cherry stain wiped back clean 20 minutes later, and 8 to 12 coats of Sam's Stuff, the surface has a nice warm light walnut color (it is a member of the walnut family, but it's less than half the weight per cubic foot walnut is.) That many coats of finish firms up the surface quite a bit. Gee, I ramble... Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> Secretary's Revenge: Filing almost everything under "the". I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
