Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] The Great Licensing Discussion

2011-12-21 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: > The relicensing debate is something which is surprisingly complex. My > view (after discussing this with Richard Fontana from the software > freedom law center a couple years ago) is that the BSD license does > not allow attaching restrictions to unmodified BSD-licensed code. If i

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] The Great Licensing Discussion

2011-12-21 Thread Michael Richardson
> "Chris" == Chris Travers writes: >>> "Chris" == Chris Travers writes: >>    Chris> So, suppose we do this.  What would it mean for >> contribution? >> >>    Chris> If you are a current developer, would you be more or >> less    Chris> likely to contribute in th

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] table company legal_name, entity name, difference?

2011-12-21 Thread Håvard Sørli
On 16. des. 2011 11:12, Chris Travers wrote: > Originally the entity.name was supposed to be a sort of canonical name. > > We should probably, in 1.4, drop company.legal_name. For persons, we > should keep the canonical name approach though and expose it to the > UI. The canonical name idea is us

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] The Great Licensing Discussion

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:28 PM, John Locke wrote: > Personally I prefer GPLv2 over GPLv3. I'm somewhat agnostic about GPL vs > BSD -- I do like GPL v2 a lot, and like its mechanism for protecting end > customers -- but I also work on some BSD-licensed projects and have no > qualms about a license