----- "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license > is not a > reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss > anyway. > we're squabbling about strawberry vs chocolate. > > here's how it will go: > > 1. existing libs. the LGPL crowd - RESPECT the licenses already used. > deal > with it. the original authors chose the licenses. don't like it? go > somewhere > else. this is what pretty much every oss project will say - except for > very > small ones. > > 2. new libs. he who writes and licenses the lib initially makes the > license > call. if its LGPL or BSD - doesn't matter. but RESPECT their choice. > just like > they need to RESPECT the choices of existing libs and stop trying to > change > them. > > 3. new apps. same as libs - choose your license. BEWARE of GPL though. > you > CANNOT take the GPL code and put it into an LGPL lib - so if you see > code going > from app back to a lib sometime... think many times before GPL. > licence the APP > under LGPL - it'd be effectively the same. Thanks Raster!! finally a POW that respect the others :) Are you sure that we can (safetly) use LGPL for apps? From what I read on the gnu site LGPL is exaclty for libs, I didn't find nothing about using LGPL in apps. Thanks Dave > > 4. linking TO LGPL libs is ok - we do it already anyway. > > 5. linking to GPL libs - be WARY. very. this makes your lib GPL and > then any > app using that lib GPL. beware of the chain of "infection". if you > want it a > core lib used by everyone - chances are this is a very bad idea. > > i'm a little tired of the divisive political debating here. this is > NOT a > technical argument. it id not something u can win by benchmarking, > numbers and > proof. it's all emotions, speculation and politics. please take your > politics > elsewhere as this is the one thing that is really going to destroy > this > community if anything. i know i am personally ->||<- this far from > saying "fuck > it - i'm out. if this is becoming a political playground i have better > things > to do that deal with it". > > now. make your choices. but enough of the politics. > > debate is healthy - technical debate. direction for features and code > and > technical stuff. we can always debate. its good. politics is nothing > more than > a way to divide and create little power encampments "us" and "them". > > i have been very quiet - i was hoping people would sort their > difference out > quietly, but it seems i need to say something. i think i have been > very > reasonable here and have tried to accommodate BOTH sides. i see the > arguments > for LGPL etc. and i know why. i respect the desire for it - and when > it is > appropriate and sane/possible - if the author(s) want to use it, do > so. by the > same token respect the licenses there already. if 1 author for a > project says > "no - i wont relicence" or 1 authors alone simply never responds, it > doesnt get > relicenced. in fact the debate and effort spent relicencing is a big > waste of > time. so again - there are 2 valid sides to this. respect EACHOTHER. > > thanks. :) > > now... do we have productive stuff to do? > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" > -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
