John Griessen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Peter Clifton <pc...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 09:17 -0500, John Griessen wrote: > > > OpenNurbs.org has the code, public domain. He's considering forking > > > and licensing it GPL. > > IMO, that sounds like quite an aggressive thing to do to a code base.. > > particularly forking, then choosing a less permissive license to release > > under. > > He finds there is little community involved using it and no one improving the > code > except the original commercial publisher for bug fixes. That's > the only reason for a fork.
...or the forker has sigificant issues with the way in which the original author/project leader is managing the original tool. For example, the "IPCop" fork of "Smoothwall". _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user