I can see both sides of the argument, although I must say that permissive
licenses rarely see corporate users contribute back their code, Andrew
tanenbaum, creator of Minix, received a letter from an employee of intel
stating how intel preferred permissively licensed software to copyleft software
as they wouldn't have to give their contributions to their competitors, which
meant they were able to use Minix in the intel management engine without
contributing code back to Minix. Although, I also think that the market CDE was
created for, workstations, is long dead and gone, and thus any meaningful
corporate contributions to CDE with it. I say we simply stick with LGPL, motif
hasn't moved yet, the xutils havent moved, so that is going to be a lot of work
for what seems to be very little reward.
Also, as far as I can tell (I am not a lawyer), the EPL is only incompatible
with the GPL, not the LGPL, so we could probably still see an updated kornshell
in CDE. I would however like to see the assets bumped to CC-BY-SA-4.0 still.
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On June 14, 2018 5:27 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis <antonis.tsolomi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 14/06/2018 12:55 μμ, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
>
>> You seem to hold developers in low regard. Please consider: what happens to
>> a project with no developers?
>
> Of course not. I have developed many things in the TeX world and of course I
> am grateful to
> Jon and others who worked hard to free CDE and make it work.
>
> So on the contrary, I am grateful to developers. I am just afraid that a
> wrong turn will
> hurt again CDE. That is all.
>
> And what about users? I have proof for the other direction. I have paid for
> CDE and
> as a user I was treated with disrespect.*
>
> Someone must think of the users too. Not only the developers.
>
> Antonis.
>
> *The only useful thing about that buy was the book it came with the CD which
> I now use
> with the LGPL CDE.
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