On 9/17/07, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17 Sep 2007, at 21:21, Jesse Ross wrote: > > Sounds like a good idea. > > > All new code should be under a BSD or more permissive license (X11/ > > MIT, public domain...). > > Agreed. I wouldn't mind extending this to include LGPL if other > people felt strongly.
I think we do need to include LGPL in this list. > > All existing code should be attempted to be relicensed to BSD or more > > permissive, with the author's permission. > > I'll leave this for people who have put non-BSD/MITL code in the tree > to decide. BSD or LGPL is fine. GPL is potentially more problematic, but it really depends which code it is, really. I don't think we have loads of GPL code anyway. But generally, we should keep things simple. I don't want to become a lawyer. > > Any new contributions to existing projects should be under the same > > license as the project, or a more permissive license. > > Definitely agreed. As the recent spat over the OpenBSD Atheros > driver has shown, it's not polite to make modifications to code that > the upstream project can't use, and no one likes people who do. indeed. > > Any ports or forks from existing work should be under the license of > > the original project, and should not be GPL if there is a more > > permissively-licensed alternative. > > Agreed, although I have no problem with adding code under a more > permissive license to forks of other projects (e.g. adding MITL or PD > code to a BSDL project). yeah, though it probably would be easier for long term maintenance to have a unique licence per project. > I think the only big GPL'd thing we have in the tree is PopplerKit > (based on Poppler, which is based on xpdf, which is GPL'd). The only > BSDL PDF framework I've found was written in Java, so that probably > has to stay and we have to be careful what links to it. I don't > suppose anyone feels like doing a full check of the tree? I can only thank you for putting your name forward like that, TR :) -- Nicolas Roard "La perfection, ce n'est pas quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, c'est quand il n'y a plus rien à enlever." -- Antoine de St-Exupéry _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
