On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:44:22 +0200 Kim Woelders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not that I think my opinion is particularly relevant or that it will > help in one direction or the other, but I'll just state it anyway: > > I think there should be One License for The Enlightenment Project. > > I think the One License rule should be enforced strictly. > If people have code they don't want to place under The License for > The Enlightenment Project they should take it elsewhere. One True License makes sense for a collection of libraries like EFL, so I agree. > I'd prefer The Licence to be BSD. I really don't care which it is. I contribute code to open source projects I want to, regardless of particular licence used. > If it is possible to obtain no objections to switching ALL of The > Enlightenment Project to LGPL, ok then let's switch. > However, I don't think there is any chance this is going to happen. Let me state again, it will be impossible to change license. One of two things MUST happen to change - A) Every single author that contributed code must agree to the change. There is ample evidence from these discussions that this simply will NEVER happen. Too many people are sticking to their guns about sticking with the current license. No amount of argument will change their minds. On top of that, the off list email I mentioned before that tried to get opinions from all those authors proved one thing, we cannot track them all down anyway. B) Given that A) is impossible, someone has to go through the entire codebase and audit it for code that cannot be relicensed and replace it with code that can. This is not going to make our small number of active developers more productive. It will be a huge effort, and will simply not be worth it. > I think it would be *really* nice soon to put an end to all this > license talk for some time to come. Yes please. Stop wasting our time with copious arguments over something that will either not be possible, or such a big effort that it is counter productive. Let's spend our valuable time on coding. /me seriously considers telling his email client to ignore the license flame wars.
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