On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 00:54 -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > Jamie Jones wrote: > > > > It is rather clear that you don't like the GPL, that's fine - but > > ultimately the module authors decide what to license their work as. > > Really, you are making a mountain out of a molehill. > > > > Not really. The point about what commercial people are willing to use, > has gone in one of your ears and out the other. I prefer to see > archives of useful CMake stuff get adopted by the maximum number of people.
Please don't confuse commercial with proprietary. It's quite possible to be commercial and open source. I do see your point, but it is a non-issue as far as I can see. Checking the license on code you wish to use is normal due diligence, and any company that fails to do that, rightfully so deserves to be sued out of existence. Companies that are concerned about GPL code "tainting" their proprietary products should not be mis-appropriating GPL code, or indeed any code under a "copyleft" style license. Do you believe that having GPL build scripts requires you to distribute the source to the application ? If so you are quite mistaken. You only need to distribute the source to the build scripts. I don't see any way you can possibly link the build scripts to the application's executable, that would require you to distribute the applications source. When I first started making cmake modules, I had to look around for examples. All those proprietary applications - I'm sure they have lots of useful cmake modules, unfortunately we can't use those modules because they are proprietary and the source is locked away. As a new user that was very frustrating - I would much rather see those modules under a license where they are not locked away, so that anyone that wants to, can use and improve on them. In the end, I think this will help users choose cmake over alternatives. In the end, I think the only thing that we can agree on, is that we agree to disagree. Regards, Yagisan -- Jamie Jones Proprietor E-Yagi Consulting ABN: 32 138 593 410 Mob: +61 4 16 025 081 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.eyagiconsulting.com GPG/PGP signed mail preferred. No HTML mail. No MS Word attachments PGP Key ID 0x4B6E7209 Fingerprint E1FD 9D7E 6BB4 1BD4 AEB9 3091 0027 CEFA 4B6E 7209
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