On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:55 PM, David Seikel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:14:08 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> this was on purpose. >> >> The recent authors (cedric, me, tom...) decided they didn't like BSD >> as the ancient and the license was hurting us as nobody gave back. > > I'm curious, do you have actual numbers showing if that actually > increased the amount of people giving back? And numbers for the amount > of people that stopped giving back coz they didn't like LGPL going > viral on them? Licence bigotry cuts both ways.
0 x >0 helps? before we had zero, then we had all of the customers of my company, plus my own company developments, plus openmoko (when raster was there), then samsung, free.fr, etc. the guys that left didn't make much of a difference, new blood got in and lots of code was done (gone etk/ewl, in elementary, gone ecore_data, in eina, ...) >> Then when we created Eina to unify data types in ecore and evas, we >> proposed to do it in LGPL and people accepted, raster was okay with >> that and so we did. > > There was the usual bun fight when it happened, it wasn't just blindly > accepted by all. that's always the case, and the reason why it was done this way (not changing the whole project) >> we couldn't change the license of the whole code to LGPL because of >> practical issues (we'd have to contact and get permission of all >> authors), then as the BSD licensed code is basically "casted" into >> LGPL automatically there is no problem in mixing them. > > So basically what you are saying is that instead of asking every one, > you enforced it by legal means. Even on those that objected. they CAN'T object to that because they explicitly choose a license that allows that. That's the stupid part "you can take my code and do whatever you want, just keep this copyright notice" and then your code is modified (under the same license, bsd) to use other code that doesn't allow this shit, and people are amused... ahahaha all in all people were getting the code and not even making the changes publicly. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri -------------------------------------- Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 Contact: http://www.gustavobarbieri.com.br/contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
