Stas Sergeev <s...@list.ru> writes: > 21.07.2013 20:09, solarflow99 пишет:
>> I like gpl 3 too, if gpl3 existed long ago dosemu probably would have >> used it. But it would be a shame to drag things down over licensing. > I don't think anything can be dragged down this time. > Things have changed. Firstly, the discussion now happens > in a public ML, instead of an IRC as it was 10 years ago. > Secondly, there is now the Git, which allows us to _look_ > into the proposed things, changing them quickly etc, while > in the past we had to argue without much of a demonstration > of our ideas, and the misunderstandings ensued. > And thirdly, there is no more permanent disagreement > between me and Bart on the code simplicity vs compatibility. :) > Simplicity won, compatibility (with ancient linux environments) died. > My goal is to simply resolve the misunderstandings that > are all there in the COPYING.DOSEMU. This is a very bad > place for misunderstandings IMHO. :) Hans did get upset that distributions were retarring his tarball and making it impossible for people to verify that what he shipped was actually what the distributions had, and took an interesting take on the GPLv2. Arguably Bart as the current maintainer is free to relax that part of the interpretation. > Considering the dire > consequences of these misunderstandings, like the "GPLv2 > only" instead of "GPLv2 or later", it IMHO really needs to be > resolved once and for all. The fact that the GPLv3 has more restrictions and is not compatible with the GPLv3 I find a royal pain. But it is very much the case that if code is not marked GPLv2 or later the code is v2 only. Baring a different licence being provided by the author. > Aside from resolving the misunderstanding, of couse an > extra steps can be done, like asking people about relicensing > etc, but for now just removing the misunderstandings would > be already a big achievement. For a project as old as dosemu if we can't get out a release that makes networking easy I can't see a change in licencing being realistic or relevant. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dosemu-devel mailing list Dosemu-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dosemu-devel
