Hi Peter, Please let's not argue which license is better. It's about which license is more suitable for the project, and we had already a long long discussion before the decision. Let's face the fact: there are much more contributions than ever, from various new comers, to FreeRDP project, and this happened "coincidentally" after the decision of the license change. I know Otavio was not happy about the license change at that moment, but I believe he is quite happy now, because what it matters is that we are getting more and more features at a pace faster than ever.
Running a GPL project myself, I definitely respect GPL and your contribution to rdesktop under GPL. However, please move one step backwards and think again: what's the point of insisting GPL while there's already an alternative that has already shown much more vitality for the project? why insisting on something while you can actually get more benefits from an alternative for yourself already? The community will eventually do whatever necessary to get through this. I post this message because I don't want to see meaningless wars. Open source is all about co-operation; please be considerate. Vic On 06/22/2011 07:39 PM, Peter Åstrand wrote: > We do understand that many companies are interested in a FreeRDP release > without a copyleft license. Companies loves advanced software that they > can do whatever they want with. But we are arguing that this would be > "too good to be true": Despite the low activity in the rdesktop project > before the fork, the software still represents a highly valuable piece > of software. This is largely because of Matt Chapman and others, but > Cendio also contributed heavily to it. We did this because the GPL > license guaranteed copyleft; it guaranteed that no company could use it > for profit without giving back. This explains why we do not want to > switch to a non-copyleft license. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
