On AD 2007 August 03 Friday 02:07:53 PM -0600, Jesse Stay wrote: > I should mention this is an excellent opportunity for you to be a > contributor to open source - this should be an opportunity for us to > write libraries (WWW::LDS::FamilySearch?) for the various languages we > write in, so when it is released there is something out there for > others to use.
Something I remember from the Tech Talk is that the licensing the church wanted for code to interface with the family search API seemed too restrictive, meaning that if Jesse or I wrote WWW::LDS::FamilySearch we couldn't license it under the GPL or host it on CPAN, and it would be precluded from being distributed as bundled with other software. Am I understanding this correctly? My general impression was that the code couldn't be licensed in a way that was open source compatible which is ironic and disappointing considering the ostensible Open Source endorsement I've previously sensed from the church especially in this program. Justin _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
