On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:09:51PM +0300, Timo Teras wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2015 20:34:15 +0200 > Juliusz Chroboczek <j...@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote: > > > > Juliusz does not want his code to carry a GPL notice and does not > > > want to engage with the quagga project to potentially find a way to > > > resolve this. > > > > I certainly object to people adding their copyright notice to our > > (unmodified) code without our permission and without even an advance > > warning. > > There was no copyright notice added. The only thing added was the > addition of GPL notice. Or sublicensing it as GPL. … > That explicitly allows to sublicense your code. But now you are saying > it's not allowed?
That's really not the question here. The goal of merging babeld - merging anything really - isn't to have a bunch of files in the repo, it's to also pick up the people & community and have it be alive - maintained, extended & worked on. To me, it's completely understandable and agreeable that Juliusz & Matthieu may not want to maintain & put work into a version of their code that got GPL headers tacked on. I don't even care if it's their personal preference, or if they need it MIT licensed for some academic reason - their choice to put work into something is completely independent. Either we accept their choices and welcome them, or we don't pick up their code. Ignoring their choices and merging it in the full knowledge that they spoke out against it is not a valid choice if we're expecting and depending on their support. Putting even a second of thought into this couldn't have shown any other outcome than the bloodbath we got. So, ultimatively, the original babel merge was (probably) legal, but also completely pointless, nearsighted, disrespectful, and worst of all: detrimental to community health, "peace", external perception and thereby the Quagga project overall. Yet, to my knowledge, Paul hasn't publicly acknowledged that that might have been a bad move [apologies if this is incorrect] => I see little reason to soften my previous paragraphs. And, quite honestly, I can also understand how someone could be offended by the way all of this happened. -David (probably/hopefully my last mail in this thread.) https://i.imgur.com/NanSA32.png (no this mail was not written in "fuck it" mode. the opposite of that, in fact.) _______________________________________________ Quagga-dev mailing list Quagga-dev@lists.quagga.net https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-dev
