On Wednesday 05 November 2003 00:12, Paul wrote: <...> > There is no intention of moving Scribus out of it's current licence, > though at the Linux Expo we did consider changing it to LGPL and there > were a number of interested parties wanting us to take it commercial. As > Franz is down as the main copyright holder of the source, if he wants to > change the licence he can. The fun comes if I don't want my stuff to > change (the material on my laptop reaches into just about every source > file for some serious optimisations!) - but that won't happen.
I hope you are planning on putting it on the anoncvs-server som day instead of keeping it for yourself in order to have a way of counteracting any licensing change Franz might want to do. ;-) No really, I can't wait to see it. > > > 1. Quark wanted money off us per copy or they'd not be nice to us > > > 2. Any work surrounding the importer could not be released > > > > > > bastards! > > > Nope, business. They have to protect their investment and can't have > some linux hackers reverse engineering something which must have taken > weeks to truely cack up ;-p I'll only say it this one time: the capitalist mode of production stinks! (that was it, I'll never go into it again on this strictly technical list) -- Johannes Wilm
