I, for one, welcome this change. It will make it possible to use code from gforth in amforth projects.
Enoch, if you can't live with the license change, you might consider asforth ( https://github.com/nfz/asforth ) a subroutine threaded fork of amforth that is still under the GPLv2 license. It would be legal to include any and all code from versions of amforth prior to the license change in asforth projects or in the asforth distribution and continue developing under GPLv2. Regards, Andreas On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Matthias Trute <mtr...@web.de> wrote: > Hi, > > > Now to my reprimand: Changing the software license is a significant > > decision. I would have expected you to explain/justify the move well to > > this forum and not just slap it on. Many people have contributed to the > > success of your project and thus, I consider this to be basic courtesy. > > Sorry, you're right. So the formal request: I intent to change the > license from GPLv2 to GPLv3. Details are available at www.fsf.org > The reason is that I intent to include a major GPLv3 licensed > code base. Enoch: you are the only code contributor to the > assembly sources and the python based amforth-shell (17 commits, > will double-check) who did not yet tell me under which terms you > provided your code and patches. Your emails make me think that you > disagree with the license change, so unless you explicitly > say "Yes, I agree" I'll remove all of your code and replace > it, if necessary before I proceed with my plans. > > If I forgot someone, please let me know. To my best knowledge, > I did not include code from others without a "do what you want" > like permission. These forgotten contributors have of course the > same right to either agree or demand the code removal. Again: I'm > not aware of such code. > > Code in the community repository is not affected by this change, btw. > I talk about the code repository. > > > Simply put: AmForth from trunk@1687 onward will never be used in any > > commercial product, nor would it ever be the choice of any law abiding > > professional developer (aka consultant). If this is what you want to > > accomplish -- good luck, if not -- reconsider your move. > > Amforth is free and open source software, the destiny of closed > software is not my business. > > Matthias > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ > Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
