> And, for the record, I still think we're screwing over our users and  
> future community developers.

I don't really want to add fuel to the fire here, but I do want to say  
this...

The potential for possibly "screwing over" future users of GPL-based  
plugins (although we're not actually preventing anyone with GPL code  
from distributing their plugins, we're just not offering to distribute  
them on their behalf) is, in my opinion, a much lesser risk than the  
potential of possibly screwing over everyone who has contributed code  
to Habari with the intent of it being BSD-type Free (not GPL-type  
Free), if the FSF ever decides to come after us for distributing code  
that arguably links only against Habari (and thus making Habari  
"inherit" the GPL license). I'm with the others in saying that I don't  
fully understand the implications of this, but the preamble of GPLv3  
indicates that the so-called viral clause is still in play.

This is a grey area, of course. I just prefer to be more safe than  
more accommodating here.

S


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