On 6/8/2013 4:14 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/8/2013 2:39 PM, EBo wrote: >> 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. > +1 I'll stick my neck out too. :) > > I think this could work quite well starting with HAL and RTAPI (which > IIRC didn't have quite the license issues of some of the rest of the > code), and make a great "excuse" to make the code build more modular > in the process. > > ...and I'm trying to clearly tag everything I write with GPL2+ license > clauses, although I'd be happy to switch to LGPL2+ or some other open > license if that helps the "play nice with other licenses" problem. Or > even assign copyright to LinuxCNC Perpetual Licensing Federation of > Concerned Parties (or who/what-ever) if it helps things move forward! IANAL, but... The problem with tagging it with a particular license and then adding it to the source occurs if I modify the code. I'm now a copyright owner of part of the code AND I assumed that it would have your particular license. Now, YOU can't change the license without my permission.
I think that's sort of how we got where we are. Ken > > :) > > - -- > Charles Steinkuehler > char...@steinkuehler.net > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlGzkLEACgkQLywbqEHdNFzQ2ACggCD+Pco9iv0S+E4rKd4pe10l > uMgAoIjmDR5X6LVuVlk7k7a+HbepFV5O > =G4GP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
