On 3-Aug-08, at 2:50 PM, Hisham Mardam Bey wrote: > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:46 PM, dan sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> On 3-Aug-08, at 1:27 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: >>> >>> Hey, but that's ok for _YOU_, isn't it?! You already said it's fine >>> and that's exactly the purpose to use BSD over LGPL. We're just >>> being >>> more friendly and instead of keeping it proprietary. >> >> People contributing to the community? Sure that's ok for me. That's >> ok >> for everyone I believe. I think that's kinda the point. People >> contributing to the community works perfectly well under BSD and has >> been working perfectly well. >> > > Dan, if you're referring to the EFL community, then I really think you > should look at just how many active contributors we have. The number > of people contributing to CVS is tiny, I wouldn't exactly use the word > "perfect" to describe this situation, unless of course you think that > 5 or less people contributing code and a couple hundred users that > like to experiment with "alternate desktop environments" constitute > what you'd call a "community working perfectly well". In 10 years > time, we've made almost no noticible progress when it comes to growing > the EFL developer or user base. We're still regarded as a niche and > elitist group both in developer and user land. I believe its time to > change the rules of the game and see what happens, specially given the > fact that developers backed by companies are showing interest in > contributing code under LGPL (and are starting to pave the future path > of the EFL by doing so).
I'd say our problem lies in re-implementing the same things over and over again. We never make progress in anything because we just re- implement the same libraries. Changing licenses won't help that. I wonder how many people have been driven away because of the sheer number of libraries in CVS and seeing the duplication. dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
