Im away from pc at moment. (Driving Uber) but I did see that LinuxFromScratch is taken...
https://github.com/LinuxFromScratch/linuxfromscratch On Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 2:08 PM Bryan Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > Is LinuxFromScratch already taken? Or is that too pretentious since this > is actually just ALFS? > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 1:20 PM Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 21/04/2019 18:07, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 11:37 AM Pierre Labastie >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I've read a little more about this [1], and wants to summarize here >> what I >> >> understand. Note that I've not checked that what I say is valid in >> countries >> >> other than US (I've just seen yesterday, when looking at W3m, that a >> true open >> >> source license is impossible in Japan). jhalfs has been based in US >> from its >> >> beginning, so let us consider it is under the US law: >> >> - All contributors are copyright holders. There's no need to register >> to be a >> >> copyright holder, and there is no notion of a minimum contribution to >> be a >> >> copyright holder. Actually, all contributors have made substantial >> >> contributions, so the point about minimal contribution is not relevant >> here. >> >> - If there is no license, nobody has right to use, distribute, modify, >> parts >> >> he or she has not written, unless given explicit permission! Even other >> >> contributors have no right to modify what is already written! This is >> the aim >> >> of the license to relax such permissions. >> >> - Jeremy, the initiator of the project has chosen the GPLv2 license, >> so all >> >> contributions are under this license. Changing to another license is >> possible >> >> only if the new license is compatible with the previous one, unless the >> >> copyright holders agree to change to an incompatible license. Here, >> the only >> >> compatible license is GPLv3. AGPLv3 is not (too restrictive), LGPLv3 >> is not >> >> (too permissive), and other common licenses (MIT, Apache, Mozilla) are >> too >> >> permissive too. At this point, we have two possibilities: >> >> - go to GPLv3 (or keep GLPv2, but it is not well suited to modern >> ways of >> >> collaborating). >> >> - Ask the seven contributors whether they accept a more permissive >> license >> >> (I would push for MIT. Other licenses are not very sensible for >> jhalfs). >> > >> > My preference would be to try this first, seeking permission to move >> > to MIT. If that fails what issue is there with keeping GPLv2? I >> > believe a move to Github does not really impact the license and I'm >> > not really a huge fan of GPLv3, although admittedly it's been a while >> > since I looked at its details. Overall, I think it's just more complex >> > that it needs to be. I like the simplicity of MIT or BSD licenses. >> > >> >> - Gihub has two types of repo: >> >> - private, means a few collaborators (maximum of 4 with free >> github) can >> >> access the repository, but it is not visible to anybody else >> >> - public, means it is visible to anybody, and anybody can be given >> commits >> >> right, but there are again to possibilities: >> >> - owned by an individual, who has all the administrative rights. >> >> - owned by an organization. Means there may be several owners, >> which >> >> may give various rights to users (administration, commit, >> etc, I've >> >> not read it in full yet) >> > >> > Private would make it hard to collaborate and I think kind of defeats >> > the purpose. Given the history of ALFS, I'd say an organization (you >> > can create one and invite others to be admins) makes the most sense. >> >> OK, I'll send a mail to all the other five contributors (I think I can >> consider having Jeremy's agreement, and mine). I agree with creating an >> organization. Ideas for name? >> >> Pierre >> -- >> http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss >> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ >> Unsubscribe: See the above information page >> >
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