Follow-up Comment #4, task #11408 (project administration): >> There is no point to assign an independent copyright to the JAXB >> generated content, because it has been generated from >> http://esp.nongnu.org/esp.xsd.gz, which is already under GPL. > Is that information already stated somewhere in the tarball?
Not yet, I'll include the file itself, which does contain the GPL license. Changing the generated content is pointless because re-generation would remove the comments. >> I suppose you don't consider the reference to >> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ethics in the header of >> org/nongnu/frs/service/opentravel/OTAConnector.java a problem >> either? > Sorry, I haven't noticed it the first time I checked the project. > What does it means, exactly?. It seems like it's asking for not to > disturb proprietary business by forcing the user to "buy" the > software, that would be an inacceptable for a free software package. I'm merely asking contributors not to release an OTA connector as Public Domain (I'm forking this project from a project which is released as Public Domain, but I'm the primary author of that project as well). I do think a GPL version could also remain more a "proof of concept" design (of this single class, not the whole project), because my aim is not to provide a high quality system for free. There are several companies that sell nothing much but such systems. Personally I lack the motivation to disrupt their business. I merely want to offer an entry level system that cannot do all the things (e.g. OTA) you might want from a professional system. Of course I appreciate that this view does not apply to all open source software components (e.g. the Linux kernel and GCC for instance), but is there a need for a free high level reservation system? I think closed-source competitors wouldn't like it and even users might dislike it if other users of the system became their competitors too easily. I see the further development of the system as an intellectual challenge and would rather add some exercises to it than spoil the educational effects. (See http://vsrs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vsrs/README?view=markup for exercises in the original project). _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?11408> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/