The license in question does not meet the Open Source
definition<http://opensource.org/docs/osd>.
In particular, it discriminates against commercial endeavor. I'll ask for
the license to be changed, or the project will be asked to move elsewhere.

-- Lucas

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:41 PM, tueidj <[email protected]> wrote:

> What exactly is wrong with the new license that makes it incompatible
> with Google Code? As long as it's still open source, what's the issue?
>
> On Aug 9, 4:05 am, "J.D. T." <[email protected]> wrote:
> > http://code.google.com/p/genplus-gxis now under the non commercial
> > mame license. It should be removed as it's not longer in tune with
> > open source philosophy.
> >
> > The project was GNU GPL but upstream made the switch leaving
> > downstream developers no choice but to relicense to in order to be
> > able to reuse the code from newer versions.
>

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