Il giorno 04/giu/2014, alle ore 09:11, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> Would these companies and/or contributors be more inclined to contribute to > the project if portions of it were GPLv2 over GPLv3? > > Yes because there is apparently a no gplv3 policy in some conpanys due to > gplv3 patent restrictions. > Do they have a history our contributing to projects under GPLv2 over v3? Have > these contributors submitted any patches to GPL projects? > > Yes. > The reason I all these questions is because I do not see why a company or > contributor would be so fervently again the GPLv3 but not v2. > > > See again regarding patent restrictions in gplv3 > If it is am entity that has goaltending contributed to an educational > license, such as BSD or MIT, be more inclined to contribute to a project > licensed in such a manner? If so, relicensing to GPLv2 gains us nothing as > the licensing objections would be still be present. > > Gplv3 seems also to be hated by many developers including many of our own. +1 > This particular decision does not affect me any as my major contribution, > CoreBase, is already LGPLv2.1. > > Over the decade that I've been involved with this project, beginning as a > user and now as a contributor, I've read arguments about how a trivial > solution, such as this one, would increase contribution. > > No one is saying any one thing is a panacea.There are a myriad of issues with > gnustep only one of which is licensing. > > Also, I disagree that licensing is minor. Licensing affects how the software > can be used. So I would say it's very important. > > Other issues with gnustep are that there are many fundamental things which > currently don't work properly. Printing being one of them. Our default look > is unattractive, outdated and generally gives a poor impression, we do not do > a good job of inviting change and encouraging contribution. We do not promote > ourselves very well. The list continues. For the look, I asked help in the past with the rick theme, because me and Riccardo got busy, the theme is at a good point, I use it every days, it needs some minor fixes, tabs implementation. I asked help, saying that the code is on github, fork it and help please! Gregory helped me a lot with advices in that period on the etoile IRC, but as I said then I got busy, I had to work too. I link again: https://github.com/AlessandroSangiuliano/rik.theme There’s also an experimental dbuskit integration. > > Thanks > Stefan > > GC > If my opinion could count something, I think gnustep needs: 1) Better quality code, I would propose a debugged release where features implementation is frozen, focusing just on bugs fixing. 2) A modern look & feel, without cutting out the old theme for NextStep lovers; just give to people the possibility to choice. 3) Marketing. I mean: video, tutorials and so on to advertise gnustep attracting developers. Alex. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A: "Hey dude, where are you from?" B: “I’m from Uros” A: “What?” B: “Uros, the Uranos' world capital” A: “Hey dude, you look so strange and white. You should eat some meat!” B: “We don’t need to eat” A: “Hey man, that dude looks so strange, He doesn’t need to eat” C: “OMG! So strange, he also is so white!” D: “Why do I have to hunt to eat and survive and he doesn’t need to eat to survive? I hate him!” <…>
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