On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 17:59, Marc-André Moreau <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Otavio Salvador <ota...@ossystems.com.br> > wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 16:49, Marc-André Moreau >> <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If we had a feature-complete client I might agree with you but >> >> nowadays I don't. We lack too many features and the code contribution >> >> is a safe-path for us to get them done. If someone wants to have a >> >> closed client, go and do it from scratch. >> > >> > If we keep our UIs such as xfreerdp or dfbfreerdp GPL'ed, this would >> > mean >> > that people who want a closed client would need to write their own UI >> > from >> > scratch, at least. >> >> The UI is the least important thing. I worry about the library. > > In this case, most of the code we care about would be under LGPL, so there > isn't that much of a difference between GPL and LGPL except that we allow > people to link code that we don't care much about to our library. In this > case, switching to LGPL won't do much besides limit the virality of the > license to just the library - or pretty much the largest part of the > project.
Ok. Let me make it clear: I don't want to have O.S. Systems's FreeRDP contributed code on other license then GPL or LGPL. I know the rights that those give to us and the obligations to its users. I agree with both. So from our side I NACK Apache, MIT or BSD like license. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
