Am 09.06.2013 um 23:13 schrieb Ian McMahon <imcma...@prototechnical.com>:
> I'm very new to the game, and I probably don't understand all the details and > politics around this discussion, but: > > I'm assuming the concern is over the potential over-restriction of GPL? Yes, but the restrictions really have two dimensions One is any 'outside oriented' restriction (for lack of a better word) - restricting use of the package per se - that's what you are referring to the other dimension is the restrictions the license exerts on integrating other open source packages with incompatible licenses. That has been a problem in the past, and it becomes a massive problem if one considers replacing the mass of unmaintained legacy code dragged along by packages which are actually used and have a life of their own, if only to outsource the support problem and gain from other people's work (which I thought was key to open source success) here's an example boat anchor: src$ sloccount libnml/ emc/nml_intf/ ... Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 31,374 -m ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
