On Monday 03 December 2007 10:38:37 Noah Slater wrote: > I was excited to read about the "Perl on Rails" framework you have > developed internally:
I was pretty pleased to see this mentioned too, though I was rather surprised to see it mentioned without any comment on whether it'll be released as open source or not. That said, having been through the process of getting something released as open source, I know that it can be non-trivial at times - in Kamaelia's case it took 9 months for me to get authorisation for release as open source, even though that was the intent all along from day 1. The arguments which people accept as valid tend to focus on pragmatic arguments. (the arguments around free software tend to focus around the freedoms promoted by the FSF, rather than pragmatics afterall.) > Does anyone know more about this or the BBC's intentions? I know some people from A&Mi lurk on the list and occasionally post, so presumably they'll say something when they can. Demanding people use the phrase free software rather than open source, however, actually makes life harder for release in my experience, not easier (not everyone agrees on the definitions of freedom and rights used afterall). Also, if it is released, it'd be nice if a license was chosen suitable for the eco system it sits in (either looking at other BBC projects or using the same licensing as CPAN). I've spoken at Linux World in the past about what arguments and reasons that *do* work though, which I wrote up on my blog here: http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1162045468 Michael. -- http://yeoldeclue.com/blog http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Home - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
