Hello, (...) > > Services/User/Installer - GPL2 > > Not used yet. Any chance of relicensing? > (...)
I don't really understand why the push for wanting to relicense everything that is under the GPL. That's probably because I view the GPLv2 and GPLv3 (along as the LGPL) as better licenses than the ISC/MIT/BSDL ones, and the recent discussions following the Atheros driver issue have only reafirmed that view. So, while I do understand that each individual developer has a valid opinion, I think that only half the problems have been presented thus far. For example, recently in the BSD community the idea that the BSD license is incompatible with the GPL has been gaining strength. If this is true, BSD code can't be used in GPL'ed projects, which would mean that the single corpus of work I can imagine wanting to share code with - GNUstep proper - wouldn't be able to use the code. This are rumours of course, but so are the often repeated arguments against the GPLv2 and GPLv3 found in undeadly.org and that have been cruising all the mailing lists I'm subscribed to. Having said that, and since in realistic terms: o Installer today is something that most of you can do better and quicker if you need to, as I said all along. o My contribution in recent months puts me in little position to complain in any event o I am in generally open to colaborate with projects that choose other free licenses (this was especially true before the recent discussions), and as I said before I honestly want what is deemed the best for Étoilé I can relicense everything I've done under a free, non-copyleft license like the ISC license if that is what the project wants. It's not ideal for me, as per above, and if the project official position is to disallow the GPL and even discourage the LGPL that puts me in a though spot. Best regards, Frederico Muñoz _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
