On Jun 8 2013 11:45 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > Matt Shaver wrote: >> MH wrote me recently to ask if I had fixed the licensing problem >> yet... ಠ_ಠ >> >> > GROAN! What a way to wreck a nice Saturday afternoon! Well, I read > all > your links, but especially the last one didn't really seem to tell me > much, > except that this Harmony thing sounds like something to avoid. > Michael actually asked if you'd "FIXED" the licensing issue? > That can't be true. I think he grasps at least the general nature of > the problems. I guess there are two. One is how do we deal with > code that > we DON'T have a clear copyright statement for, and that is still part > of > the code. The other is what do we do for an ownership system for the > future? > > Well, should lead to some lively discussions at the fest!
I liked Matt's suggestion to set up a clean slate and slowly migrate over. The brass tax of the matter is that there are some people you will never be able to find, and others who are vehemently opposed to relicensing their code. You are simply going to have to replace it. So while you have to do a little of that anyway, this would be good time to start the LinuxCNC-3.0 design and work through what worked and did not for v2. There is also the issue that people are spending so much time and energy thrashing over this that you could probably have replaced the worst of the offenders already. Anyway, that's my 2c. I'll probably catch hell for speaking up, but .... Oh, just to be clear, if you did something like this the first thing to do would be to choose a license. I've already heard (L)GPL2+ mentioned. I would suggest that being the very first discussion at the meeting. anyway, I hope this all gets resolved this meeting... Laters, EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
