Am Monday 13 August 2012 schrieb Micah Cowan: > On 08/13/2012 02:01 AM, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > And now back to Micah and Niwt. How can we join forces ? > > It should make sense to share code / libraries and parts of the test > > code. > > It should be noted that I chose a MIT/2-clause BSD-style license for > Niwt, so any sharing would necessarily be one-directional (towards Wget, > not the other direction), much as it has been for the Curl project. > > (I am a believer in the GPL; however, in a project made up almost > entirely of small, trivially-rewritten programs, a BSD-style license > made the most sense to me. If someone wants to redistribute a version > where one component had to link against proprietary code, I didn't see > any value in restricting that, since they could simply write a > replacement in most cases within days. Likewise, should anyone > distribute improvements without source code, it wouldn't take long to > reimplement them.)
Your arguments for a BSD-style license for Niwt make sense to me. Nevertheless, for the moment I am the only copyright holder for the Mget code. I could double license it or change the license for single source files. For the moment I can't see a real reason why we shouldn't exchange code, or work together on at least some parts (e.g. library routines). (The oneway problem might arise someday in the future...) At least I am very interested to join forces while trying to respect your caveats. Tim
