Hi, comments embedded. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Luchezar Georgiev > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression > [...] > > People, please express your opinion!
In my humble opinion, we should choose a well-known and well-established license. I know that can be problematic to read and understand the GNU-GPL, but once you have done that (it took me years to understand it), you have no more problems: it's simply plain-old-standard-vanilla-GPL. I look suspicious to any yet-another-free/open-licence-that-is-better-than-ever-before, because can have drawbacks, and mainly because I have not read it, and it'd take weeks to read and understand. I'm also scared of the license list at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html, this means we are in the "license hell", in which you'll never know what you can do and what you can't with your software. I know GPL is sometimes and somewhat problematic, but I think it's still the best free license we have. And I don't think that if everyone writes its own Joe-general-public-free-license the situation will improve. If the FreeDOS community decides to get rid of GPL, I suggest to use a famous license compatible with GPL, in this order: 1 - LGPL 2 - The modified BSD license 3 - The X11 license Ciao ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
