Le 18 sept. 07 à 17:22, David Chisnall a écrit : > On 18 Sep 2007, at 16:17, Jesse Ross wrote: > >> - All new code should be under the modified BSD, LGPL or more >> permissive license (X11/MIT, ISC, public domain...). >> - All existing code should be attempted to be relicensed to LGPL, >> BSD or more a permissive license, with the author's permission.
My only objection to these two points is I would rather prefer to have all frameworks put under permissive licenses like MIT, BSD, ISC, public domain etc. The main reason is to allow merging, branching and moving code between frameworks without encountering any license conflicts that involve to ask copyright holders about relicensing. I think that's important because Étoilé architecture will probably still evolve a lot until 0.5 and may see other major changes later (beyond 1.0 :-). That's why there has been recent move towards relicensing frameworks like IconKit from LGPL to BSD/MIT. Aside of that, I'm perfectly fine with the use of LGPL for applications and small frameworks which are linked by a limited subset of applications/components. If someone really wants to put a more important framework under LGPL, I would say it can be discussed and accepted on case-by-case. >> - Any new contributions to existing projects should be under the >> same license as the project, or a more permissive license. >> - Any ports or forks from existing work should be under the license >> of the original project, and should not be GPL if there is a more >> permissively-licensed alternative. GPL code may be entered into the >> project, but should be sufficiently isolated from other code (ie: via >> separation of the code to a service or helper application). >> >> If anyone has any problems with that, please let me know. > > They all look good to me. I'd have no problem with this appearing on > the web site as our official policy. ok. Cheers, Quentin. _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
