Hello there. Thanks for your time and taking a look at the app. About the license, my idea was to start scim with its own license, and keep it as simple as could be, but keeping in line with the points mentioned in it. I believe it will always suit best something particular and written for it, than something more general, but take in mind that this license can suffer modifications since this project is just starting! Since SCIM can be modified and redistributed with other license, such as any other GPL compatible, I believe is not as restrictive as it seems. Please, I am interested in hearing what points you dislike or consider are restrictive. Thanks!
2014-11-03 9:01 GMT-03:00 Matthias Maier <tam...@gentoo.org>: > > Am 03. Nov 2014, 00:24 schrieb Andrés Martinelli <andma...@gmail.com>: > > > I am working on a terminal spreadsheet based on "sc", but with some > > adds like undo/redo.. > > you can find it here: > > > > https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim > > > > Any new ideas and/or contribution is always welcome! > > Just out of curiosity. > > The original sc program is public domain [1]. > > You have chosen to relicense your fork of the codebase under a custom > license that you labeled "SCIM license". > > A quick peek at the license [2] reveals quite a cumbersome number of > issues (forced contact, contact possibility, redistribution in form of > tarballs and patches). Such a license usually prevents any meaningful > number of external contributions and packaging. Not to mention that > layman's licenses are almost always fundamentally flawed. > > Why not using an FSF-approved, OSI-approved, and/or DFSG compatible > license instead? I'm sure that there is something available that fits > your taste. (You can e.g. license under "GPL 2 or later" and ask for a > special (non binding) courtesy to inform you of changes/patches.) > > Best, > Matthias > > [1] > http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sc/sc_7.16-3_copyright > [2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim/blob/master/LICENSE > > -- Andrés Martinelli
