On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 18:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > frankly I am totally unable to understand the point you have been > > making > > You already agreed on the fundamental point I was making which is that > a > decision on which license to pick for your projects is an important > one.
yes > How it can affect potentially affect sustainability can be > understood by looking at various important projects. I have already > pointed one example. I have read the citation you have given - 6 times so far. There is nothing about license there - the citation talks of what you call governance - governance is bad and is the root of the problem. > If you need more, take a look at Wine history. aha - at last a good example - shift from BSD license to lgpl in the belief that BSD license was harming the project and lgpl would benefit the project. Will look into it further. This thread is extremely interesting: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2002-February/003912.html > > You will have to do further research on your own and come to your > conclusions after that point. If you want to discuss this further, > catch me up on IRC or mail me offlist. I am sure the list needn't be > bothered further with this. I do not want to discuss anything offlist - I am quite sure that lots of list members are eagerly following the discussion (and most of them cheering for you) -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
