Haha, don't worry, I respect all open-source licenses. That was intended as
a jovial remark.

Picking a license is, of course, a developer's personal decision.
Personally, I just prefer simplicity and openness, hence my preference for
the ISC license.

Didn't expect that would be taken too seriously, BTW.


On 28 April 2017 at 23:32, Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> John Gardner wrote on Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:14:55PM +1000:
>
> > ISC forever!
>
> Well, kind of "no" in the present context.
>
> While i do personally prefer the ISC license for software that
> i write myself, i also fully respect James Clark's decision to
> publish groff under the GPL, and i do acknowledge that the FSF
> owns groff and is free to define policies for it.
>
> So, promoting the ISC license, no matter whether it may or may not
> be laudable in general, is not a very efficient way to help the
> groff project, and the list <[email protected]> is arguably not the
> ideal place for such advocacy.
>
> While it is useful to remain aware that it is harder for a core
> GNU project to gain developers than for an ISC-based project,
> the task *here* is to bring in developers for groff all the same.
>
> Yours,
>   Ingo
>

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