On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:33 AM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:57:23 -0500 Youness Alaoui > <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Michael Blumenkrantz < >> michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:26:17 +0100 >> > Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:06 AM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:00:06 +0100 Vincent Torri >> > > > <vincent.to...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > > >> > > >> as we have epp source code, why creating a program and trying >> > > >> to execute it, instead of having a function that takes a >> > > >> buffer as input and create a preprocessed buffer as ouput ? >> > > >> Imho, it would be cleaner. >> > > > >> > > > I suspect the epp licence is the reason. >> > > >> > > aaarrrrggg. You're right :( >> > > >> > > Vincent >> > confirmed. >> > >> Humm.. edje is LGPL (afaik) and epp is GPL.. how about making edje_cc >> (only) a GPLv2 app and keep the rest of the lib to its current >> license.. that could be a solution. > > Edje is BSD, epp is GPL 2. There are 23 authors listed for edje, none > specifically listed as being the authors of edje_cc. Would have to get > them all to agree to a license change. Only two are listed as an author > for epp, might be easier to get epp license changed? Though this might > make things hard (from epp) - > > * Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > * Written by Per Bothner, 1994-95. > * Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Kim Woelders > > I'm one of those edje authors, but I don't think I've done anything in > edje_cc in particular. Personally I dislike the viral nature of GPL, > it makes things less free, this being a perfect example. We have to > resort to keeping GPL stuff in this sort of quarantine, or risk getting > infected with a license we did not want. That really does not help > things. > > BTW, before this devolves into a license war, we have had them before. > No way is the rest of EFL that is already BSD going to be changed to > anything else. Eina is LGPL 2.1, the rest is BSD if I remember.
elementary is also LGPL Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
