Alan, Thank you for you comments. I understand the situation.
Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alan Robertson wrote: >> >> By project policy, ALL APIs to the project are LGPL. >> http://linux-ha.org/FileCopyrightPolicy >> >> The developer of the software in question is in violation of >> long-standing, documented project policy. >> >> I have talked to him about it before. I hate to have to rewrite the >> libraries in question, but that may be what we have to do :-(. >> >> The management daemon may also do what you want - and it is licensed LGPL. > > To make it clear... As far as I am personally concerned, a person has > the right to license their software in any way they wish. So, although > I might disagree with him regarding the choice of license for this > purpose, I personally view that I have no authority to demand that a > person change their license, nor do I hold him in lower esteem for his > decision. > > My desire for consistent licensing comes from my opinion that our > customers should not have to read all every source file to discover > which portions of the system are under which licenses. For this and > other reasons, it is my belief that all projects need consistent license > policies. I totally agree with this opinion. I luckily noticed the difference of licenses this time, but the inconsistency will confuse users, particularly for newbies like me, and it may lead license violation. With this kind of risk, I might hesitate to recommend Heartbeat to some customers... that's not my desire. Of cource I also respect the developer's decision of license, but I think it would be preferable to keep an uniform, consistent policy in one project. > Of course, I still hold hope that persuasion might hold out, and he > might be convinced to license these library interfaces under the LGPL. > And I also prefer that all libraries are under LGPL. Thanks, -- Keisuke MORI NTT DATA Intellilink Corporation _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
