On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:33 -0500, Nathan Ingersoll wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Jorge Luis Zapata Muga
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Nathan Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> You're going to completely ignore all of the feedback you received on
> >> this issue and just change the license without a consensus?
> >>
> >
> > Ok, let's begin on *how* i see this.
> >
> > Eina suddenly has gotten attention, not because of its technical
> > features, but because i wanted it to be lpgl *and* raster has said
> > that he wants to push eina's effort. That's the real thing, nobody
> > cared about it on the past two years until cedric was interested and
> > pushed it into proto and pfritz did the string thing. Nobody. Raster
> > has expressed his will on that library, so what happens? everyone is
> > going to love eina because of that? if that's the case this is not a
> > community is a herd.
> 
> Wrong, it got attention because you started working with people to get
> it into CVS and operate as part of the project. Nothing to do with the
> license. Cedric may have been interested because it was LGPL, but most
> people I know of are interested because we can finally remove some
> redundant API's. Why don't you ask Peter since he's the other one you
> mention making some effort on it?
> 
> > The license "issue" is not really an issue, if the problem is because
> > ewl/ecore might be lpgl, that statement is totally wrong, you already
> > know that, you can keep the license you want and in fact you will,
> > there's no need to make other projects use eina, but the ones i'll
> > commit later will use it and also be lgpl. If the problem is because
> > all e projects should be bsd, then again, that would make sense on a
> > project where everything is shared among the developers and the
> > development which again is not the case. Basically e cvs is a
> > repository where anyone can do whatever he wants because such thing as
> > "consensus" doesnt exist, but not only at license level but on *any*
> > level.
> 
> You are misquoting this argument. The argument is we can't easily
> inter-change code with LGPL because it's now a one way relationship.
> We can only put things INTO eina because if we take anything out, we
> have to use the LGPL or GPL.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't eina a library? Why do you need to
take something out of it? What happened to good ol' linking?
> 
> Consensus is how healthy communities operate, so your second point
> would be that E is an unhealthy community.
> 
> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Enlightenment CVS
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Enlightenment CVS committal
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