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