On 8/23/06, Keisuke MORI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alan,
Thank you for you comments.
I understand the situation.
Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alan Robertson wrote:
>>
>> By project policy, ALL APIs to the project are LGPL.
>> http://linux-ha.org/FileCopyrightPolicy
>>
>> The developer of the software in question is in violation of
>> long-standing, documented project policy.
>>
>> I have talked to him about it before. I hate to have to rewrite the
>> libraries in question, but that may be what we have to do :-(.
>>
>> The management daemon may also do what you want - and it is licensed LGPL.
>
> To make it clear... As far as I am personally concerned, a person has
> the right to license their software in any way they wish. So, although
> I might disagree with him regarding the choice of license for this
> purpose, I personally view that I have no authority to demand that a
> person change their license, nor do I hold him in lower esteem for his
> decision.
>
> My desire for consistent licensing comes from my opinion that our
> customers should not have to read all every source file to discover
> which portions of the system are under which licenses. For this and
> other reasons, it is my belief that all projects need consistent license
> policies.
I totally agree with this opinion. I luckily noticed the
difference of licenses this time, but the inconsistency will
confuse users, particularly for newbies like me, and it may lead
license violation. With this kind of risk, I might hesitate to
recommend Heartbeat to some customers... that's not my desire.
Of cource I also respect the developer's decision of license,
but I think it would be preferable to keep an uniform,
consistent policy in one project.
> Of course, I still hold hope that persuasion might hold out, and he
> might be convinced to license these library interfaces under the LGPL.
Please do not misrepresent me.
As I said earlier in this thread and in previous conversations
(including before the "long standing project policy" was created), if
Keisuke or anyone else needs the licensing in the CRM changed they
just need to ask and give me a list of files.
I'll probably ask "why?" and see if there is any chance whatever he's
writing can be available to all of us, but thats about it.
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