Hi Linus,
Should we wait longer for input on others on having a GPL sub-project? It would be good if we could be part of the ArgoUML community. Jeff ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linus Tolke Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [argouml-dev] argouml-sql Hello Jeff! The license questions are always complicated. The purpose of requiring the BSD license is to allow for companies to take ArgoUML, make additions and market the resulting product. We could accept that this is not possible for the SQL plug-in or for a specific SQL plug-in and still allow the other parts of the infrastructure (since GPL is accepted by Tigris). Perhaps it is then best to keep the two separate implementations. One with the BSD license, that we hope all database engine manufacturers will pick up, improve for their RDBMS and market together with their RDBMS-product. One GPL version that we hope all database engine manufacturers will suggest improvements for as they see their users using it. Which of these scenarios that is the most likely to be successful is hard to say. It probably depends more on the developers involved than on the choice of policy. Let me just ask all developers: Is there any reason, not to take in a GPLed subproject in the ArgoUML project? /Linus 2007/9/18, Gunderson, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I was hoping this could be a sub-project of ArgoUML so that we could use the infrastructure of the ArgoUML but it looks like all sub-projects must be under the BSD license. Can you please verify? We must use the GPL license. Jeff
