ben lipkowitz wrote: >Recently a talented programmer who had written his own real-time linux >based cnc control showed up on the irc channel. When I asked him why he >chose to write his own software instead of contributing to our project, he >replied that, among other things, he was unsure if EMC was fully GPL >compliant. This bugs me. > > > This is the firestorm that Paul Corner started. Of course, he was right, there WERE a couple small pieces that were not GPL'd, or just had no indication of who wrote/owned them. We have taken care of this, as far as I know. I think Ray Henry was sort of supervising the overview of the process, and we did it about a year ago, I think.
>If anyone knows of any files in the current codebase that aren't GPL or >LGPL licensed, would they please say what they are, so we can do something >about it? Also, I'd like to ask the board to come up with a time period >for comments, after which we can safely claim that the EMC project has >finally "made the transition to GPL" that we've all been waiting for. If >anyone is certain that EMC is completely free of any code with a >questionable license, please stand up and say so, and we can get this over >with much quicker. > > > I thought we were there, already. Maybe it needs to be a continuing process, with monthly scans to check for any code without the correct boilerplate. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
