On Saturday, November 22, 2014 01:53:01 PM Edmond Orignac wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 07:39:09PM -0200, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > >> Em Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:05:53 -0700 (MST) > >> > >> Jon Trulson<j...@radscan.com> escreveu: > >>> Now CDE is an open source project, but we would *really* like to avoid > >>> being forced into a specific license if at all possible - this is why > >>> we request MIT licensing. > >> > >> Here we have a problem. In the GNU project we are mainly concerned > >> with user's freedom. > > As opposed to programmer's freedom. You seem to have appointed yourself > as Caudillo of the CDE project and you seem to be lecturing reluctant > subordinates about the greatness of your vision. > > I believed the GNOME project (contrarily to KDE) fitted perfectly the > aims of the GNU organization by being based on the non-proprietary > toolkit GTK. Moreover, in order to improve the performance of GNOME, > the X Window System is being abandoned on Linux in favor of Wayland, > while at the same time GNOME is getting tightly integrated in the new > systemd replacement for System V init. These changes are going to make > CDE and Motif obsolete on the mainstream Linuxes in the coming years. > So why this urge to seize > control of a project by a small team of programmers that is likely > to be useful only for marginal Unix type operating systems: legacy > Unices, the BSDs, OpenIndiana, CRUX/Slackware Linux ?
This is just one user's opinion (I've made a few small contributions, but nothing serious so I wouldn't count myself as anything more than an interested user) but... I use CDE because it's not trying to be anything other than a legacy desktop updated to work on modern platforms. I don't really care much about how modern it is or whether it serves the needs of a philosophically-driven Linux distro. If I wanted that, I'd use GNOME. I also don't care if it follows the One True Path of GNU, as I'm not a disciple of that particular faith. I do, however, care if it starts sprouting dependencies on GNU software that I don't use. I do care if it becomes another vehicle to promote the (L)GPL to the exclusion of other licenses. I do care if it starts depending on parts of the Linux stack or assumes that one is a Linux user. I don't think that last one is necessarily a concern in what's being proposed, but given the motivation the thought is at least in the back of my mind. Not every project that uses a non-GNU license is a battle that needs to be won for your cause. Sometimes folks just use different licenses. Live and let live. -Rob -- <Connection terminated by beer> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
