Dan, On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Daniel Berlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Greg, > > > Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Hey Stefan, > > On Tuesday, June 3, 2014, Stefan Bidi <stefanbidi <at> gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Yes, from what I hear one of them is a large search engine company based > in > > mountainview. And it's not the first one I've heard of. > > I can unequivocally state this is not the case. I'm not sure what > information you have, but i'm responsible for open source licensing > policy there, and have been for the past 8 years. We do not > specifically avoid GNUstep at all, for licensing, or any reason. In > fact, GNUStep has been supported, along with thousands of other open > source projects, through programs like GSOC. > Yes, I'm aware of this and we are VERY thankful for the opportunity to participate. As far as where I heard this, I believe it was someone trying to spread a little FUD. I should have checked my facts on this one before making a statement such as that publicly. >> 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. > > We have no such policy. In general, the only licenses we ban across > the board are those that are not actually open source (IE say, GPLv2 + > some random restrictive clause) and thus incompatible with most actual > open source licenses. > Thank you for your feedback. Things like GPLv3 are fine to use, we just make people aware of what > we will require of them if they use it (IE installation information > requirements, etc), and they make a business decision whether they > want to use it for their case. > That's good to know. We are still considering changing the license of GNUstep's tools back to GPLv2+, but it's good to know that Google has no policy against GPLv3 specifically. > HTH, > Dan It does help very much. Thanks, -- Gregory Casamento Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) http://www.gnustep.org http://heronsperch.blogspot.com
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