Ok, enough is enough...
I realize the Apache guys go and troll lists until you turn blue in the face
arguing licenses and then every one is scared because "if developers fight
that much, we can't touch this". It is a good tactic and we got burnt once.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me...
Please folks don't touch the bait, Peter I recommend you go talk to Brian
Behlendorf, he was one to recommend this, along with Stallman, Bruce Perens
and the lawyers that go with it... but you probably know better in Austrilia
"10 YEARS IN AUSTRALIA" :))))
thank you,
marc
|-----Original Message-----
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Donald
|Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 5:29 PM
|To: jBoss Developer
|Subject: Re: [jBoss-Dev] READ PLEASE (AUTHORS)
|
|
|At 06:49 3/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
|>At 02:20 PM 11/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
|>>You understand that part of my motivation is to get this thing
|out the door
|>>ASAP.
|>>
|>>IF YOU ARE ****AGAINST**** an LGPL change, SPEAK UP!!!!! SEND
|THE MAIL TO
|>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|>>
|>>your silence will not count!!!!!
|>>
|>>Given the noise we are making I am pretty sure we will reach everyone,
|>>in 2 weeks it will be too late ....
|>
|>Ya gotta be careful about this. Silence does NOT mean assent. You should
|>probably require a positive statement from every author before you change
|>to LGPL -- just to cover your legal butt. Yes, this is a pain,
|but it would
|>be even more of a pain to have to go to court some day unable to
|prove that
|>ALL of the software is legal.
|
|Changing to LGPL does not make it any more legal to do what they are doing
|so the point is kinda moot - the software will be illegal either way.
|
|Cheers,
|
|Pete
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