> The licensing issue goes from being an annoyance to a significant > hindrance if it means LinuxCNC cannot be included in a distribution > like Debian or Fedora. > > - -- > Charles Steinkuehler > [email protected]
Good point. I see we can easily forget the total impact of the licence issue. 1: Copyright protection. Keeping in mind even if at this moment no one here is willing or able to fight something like this classic http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/summary.shtml We should work towards fixing it so we could in the future. 2: Integration of 3rd party libraries. Without our licence issues figured out it either limits the use of libraries or we violate their licence. Seems we already have violated the public domain agreement by mistakenly re-licencing some NIST stuff. 3. Integration into mainstream distributions. This stops us from having to build a custom distribution and locking our selves to one distribution. It also would broaden our exposure / user / contributor base. 4: Contributor base. Licence is important to some people. Some won't contribute to a project that seems to have a flaky licence policy. Obviously fixing the issue can create problems. It would also be a good opportunity to cleanup and modularize the code more as well. Chris M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
