Christopher Murtagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Sure, but I don't really see the much of an advantage in our case to change > licenses (to v3 or LGPL). At the moment, I don't see the current license > causing any problems or confusion with anyone. Changing licenses makes people > leery though. [...]
Part of the reason it makes people leery is that often core developers start frothing about "RMS kool-aid" and other irrational reasoning. Seeing such things from developers of a finance system doesn't give many people warm fuzzies, and least of all, any non-core developers who are promoting it "out there". I get spooked by talk of odd licences like OSL and wonder whether I'm going to be migrating people off of Ledger-SMB almost as soon as they've migrated onto it (because I don't remember which of Lawrence Rosen's licences is OSL and whether it has problems and I don't want to rereview it unless I must. I want to hack, not sift legalities.) In addition to that, licensing is deeply unfun and a good thing to do OnceAndOnceOnly until there's a compelling reason to change. I don't think the mere addition of GPLv3 to the licence proliferation is a compelling reason. Maybe if something related changes to GPLv3, or something that likes v3 but not v2, it will, but let's wait and see. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
