On 2/17/11 12:11 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote: > > > On 17/02/11 11:08, Harish Narayanan wrote: >> On 2/17/11 11:56 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 17/02/11 10:27, Harish Narayanan wrote: >>>> Dear FEniCS enthusiasts, >>>> >>>> I am going to reiterate a concern that I tried to bring up earlier >>>> regarding the copyright consent forms. Please chime in with your views. >>>> >>>> I understand the rationale behind using LGPL for core FEniCS components >>>> (e.g. DOLFIN and FFC). It makes sense to me that these projects could >>>> form a part of future (potentially proprietary) applications. The >>>> developers of such applications clearly have to bring in a lot of >>>> domain-specific knowledge. I can see why they might want to keep such >>>> knowledge proprietary, and I can see how moving to LGPL brings them into >>>> the community at least as users of FEniCS. >>>> >>>> But the same logic doesn't hold (in my mind) for FEniCS Apps. Some of >>>> these function reasonably well and are already capable of solving select >>>> domain-specific problems. Aren't they, in a sense, closer to complete, >>>> immediately useful applications? Given this, does it make sense that >>>> they too should be released under LGPL? What is then to prevent someone >>>> from, say, slapping a GUI on a well-functioning solver and selling it as >>>> a tool? >>>> >>> >>> I'm not sure what you're advocating. That FEniCS Apps should be GPL? >> >> Yes, or at least be left to the developer's choice. I am not keen on >> past contributions to FEniCS Apps under GPL now suddenly being >> transferred to LGPL. >> > > I'm perfectly happy with FEniCS Apps developers choosing for themselves > between GPL and LGPL. I thought that this was the present situation?
That is not what the text of the copyright consent form suggests. I would like if what you said was made more explicit. Link for easy access: http://www.fenicsproject.org/pub/copyright/forms/letter-author.pdf Harish _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
