Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > 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. > > 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? > Agreed !!
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