Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] GPL v3? Other license options?

2007-08-18 Thread Christopher Murtagh
On Saturday 18 August 2007 14:34:50 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > The LGPL (without all the political stuff) is the fairest (imo) of all > the FOSS licenses. I might agree with that, but then again, I like my juice (and Kool Aid) watered down too. ;-) Cheers, Chris

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] GPL v3? Other license options?

2007-08-18 Thread Christopher Murtagh
On Saturday 18 August 2007 13:47:32 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > As a core member, if it were up to me, we would ditch GPL all together. Fortunately IMO, we're not able to do so without a total re-write of the software. > I don't subscribe to the ideology present within it nor do I drink RMS > bran

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] GPL v3? Other license options?

2007-08-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Locke wrote: > Hi, > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> Hello, > As a commercial company, I prefer releasing code under the GPL instead > of the LGPL (or the Apache or the BSD licenses, etc), simply because it > prevents competitors from taking my code

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] GPL v3? Other license options?

2007-08-18 Thread John Locke
Hi, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > As a core member, if it were up to me, we would ditch GPL all together. > I don't subscribe to the ideology present within it nor do I drink RMS > brand kool aid. I'm not a core member, but as a commercial open source company we've thought about this issue

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] GPL v3? Other license options?

2007-08-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, As a core member, if it were up to me, we would ditch GPL all together. I don't subscribe to the ideology present within it nor do I drink RMS brand kool aid. Does that mean that I am anti FOSS software? Hardly, in fact you would be hard press

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] GPL v3? Other license options?

2007-08-18 Thread John Locke
Stroller wrote: > This discussion shouldn't be to complicated! Surely all the > developers are familiar with the GPL. The GPL v3 is a contentious > subject and has been discussed to death elsewhere; there is therefore > no need for a flamewar on this list - surely a "now", "never!" or > "m