On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:42:15PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Someone (sorry for not knowing who) asked, if I'm not much mistaken, > about what do people complain about gnuplot, apart from it's GUI. Well, > I think gnuplot's greatest problem is it's license. Why? It complies > with the FSF's guides, OK, but I think it's annoying to have to patch > the sources every time you want to improve it. If it would be GPLed, I'm > sure more people would like to contribute with it.
Note that you need the agreement from everybody who holds copyrights on parts of the code in order to relicense a project. This can sometimes (in the case of very old projects with potentionally many external contributors, like gnuplot) be a very hard thing unless you rip code out and rewrite it (or start over from scratch). Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
