Linus

Is there any more movement on the Licence issue? How are we going to
move forward on this?

Regards

Bob

2009/3/24 Tom Morris <[email protected]>:
>> What is the actual feedback from the SFC? What is the problem from
>> their perspective?
>
> There's no problem with changing the license.  They're just not set up
> to be the copyright holder.  They're set up to hold money in escrow
> for clients, but not copyrights or other assets.
>
>> Could we fund someone to check the legalities for us?
>
> SFC does it for free.  Linus and I had a conference call with them a
> year and a half ago and went through everything with their director
> and two staff lawyers.  They said at that time that a) the license to
> anything and b) the choice of the license was up to the people running
> team and was a decision that should be made based on the values that
> they held important.  The head of the SFC is GNU guy, so if it was up
> to him, he'd probably pick the GPL.
>
> Tom
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