On Sat, 07 May 2005 09:14:46 -0600 Tres Melton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
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(B> On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 04:17 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
(B> > On Saturday 07 May 2005 03:53 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
(B> > > i just see it as an annoying issue where you suddenly cant assume that you
(B> > > can copy & paste code from any old random e17 app into any other random
(B> > > e17
(B> > > app
(B> >
(B> > after a quick chat with Simon, why not have a general rule with e17:
(B> > - libraries are BSD
(B> > - apps can be GPL/whatever, but you should add an exception clause that
(B> > says
(B> > that e17 devs can import code from your GPL/whatever app into their app
(B> > without having to worry about stupid licensing conflicts
(B> >
(B> > > side note, doing a quick check on all the COPYING files, these are GPL:
(B> > > e17/libs/esmart
(B> > > e17/libs/epsilon
(B> > > e17/proto/exml
(B> >
(B> > since these are libraries and GPL-2 sucks for libraries, perhaps this was
(B> > just
(B> > a copy & paste error and these really should be BSD ?
(B> > -mike
(B> >
(B> >
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(B> This is kinda important to me as well. I am finishing up a SSE2 port of
(B> Eterm's shading routines and wanted to use the GPL license for them. I
(B> didn't even realize that E/Eterm uses the BSD license. I would prefer
(B> the code stay open with the GPL but if MeJ insists then I suppose the
(B> BSD license will have to do. It's his baby after all. I just like
(B> things to go fast! ;-)
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(Bwell you could make them GPL - but mej can just not accept the patches as they
(Bwould taint eterm's existing license making it gpl. bsd guarantees that THAT
(Bcode stays open - but if people can steal it - if i want to "steal" that code
(Band put it into some closed proprietary project - you would never know. it can
(Bbe reformatted, and at the end of the day its an algorithm. there are only so
(Bmany ways you can write a fast routine to do a fairly narrow scoped task. if
(Bthat was the case someone would have claimed copyright infringement on for (i =
(B0; i < n; i++) a long time ago :)
(B
(Banyway - i can understand what you mean - but even if it were gpl you couldn't
(Bpractically find instances of it in closed code :(. you will know your code
(Bwill be public and free in eterm's code and available and able to be re-used
(Bwith very few restrictions, but not more limitations than that.
(B
(Bbasically if someone submits patches to code - they are implicitly agreeing to
(Bthe existing copyright license unless they ask for a change or re-license their
(Bpatches and code. if they are licensed differently the chances of them being
(Bused drop dramatically to somewhere about 0 :(
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