On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
Please read my initial mail again. At no point have I argued the legality of Paul's actions. I'm simply stating that I find his actions rude.
You chose to use MIT/X11 for code that depends on other GPL code. You did so because you told us you hate dealing with licensing hassles. You then wanted us to merge it. In effect, you left the hassle for us to deal with. You *were* involved in discussions about this, and about the options we felt were open to us - but you asked not to be involved in those, after making it clear you wanted the code to remain MIT/X11.
We (not just David Lamparter and I either, Greg Troxel is also an active maintainer, guidance wise) spent a good bit of time and energy trying to deal with this the last month+. We have tried to accommodate your wishes as much as we can.
Again, it's *not* just the licence for your software at play here. We have to meet the licenses from *other* people's code too. We've done so while *still* going out of our way to ensure future contributions remain available to you under MIT/X11.
It's just bizarre to call that rude, sorry - unless you think we're supposed to put your non-binding desires above the *binding* conditions of *other people's licences* (in addition to your licence).
Perhaps in time you'll see why we had to do this. regards, -- Paul Jakma [email protected] @pjakma Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: Cache miss - please take better aim next time _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
