On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:41 AM, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Homer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] but we still need them from > > Dan, Guillherme, Rafael, MJ, and Aitor. [...] > > I'm fine with GPL2+ for any of my contributions here. Good. > > The idea of setting up a formal organisation, and possibly doing > > copyright assignment to that, was also raised, but I think shelved for > > the moment. It would be good to get an idea of how people would feel > > about that as well. > > Sounds a bloody stupid idea on two levels. :-) > > 1. There are many formal organisations available already > (www.spi-inc.org for example), so if we are going to set up another, > there should be a damn good reason why, else we're just making > unnecessary admin work for ourselves and spending time which would be > better spent on an existing organisation. Possibly. > 2. Copyright assignment seems less good than Fiduciary Licensing > Agreements or similar. Even then, you need a pretty high level of > trust to surrender what little influence over your code you have and a > new organisation just won't have that. Also possibly. I was really just asking whether people had any vehement objections to the concept of copyright assignment (or something with similar effect), so that information could be kept in mind for the future. As I said, the idea of setting something up (or doing anything else) was shelved for now anyway.
I should clarify too - by "for the time being" I meant "so we can defer any decision about GPL3, 4, 5... indefinitely", not that there was any actual or substantive change planned. And please, people, this wasn't an invitation for an abstract discussion-slash-flamewar about licenses in general. Yes, half of you are wrong, etc etc, but take it elsewhere. I just want written acknowledgments from people with code in the tree that they're ok with GPL2+ so I can add that to the files. -Michael _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
