>On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Alain Farmer wrote:
>This really should be your first step. There is a continuum of
>choices here, any of which would be acceptable to us as part of the
>process of granting a MetaCard license to UFP/OpenCard members:
Hi,
I'm in favor of Copyleft. I think it's important that the editing
environment we devise is always available for all users to expand upon. I
have a dislike to a certain degree against proprietary software. We should
require a note that it's based on UFP work, though.
>I would also recommend you appoint a "leader" to coordinate this (and
>any other) decision making process. Anarchy is fine for some things,
>but the key characteristic of all successful Open Source projects that
>I know of is that there is one person ultimately responsible for
>making decisions. Without that, you'll end up with just a lot of talk
>and not much to show for it (which is about exactly what you've got so
>far). I open the floor to nominations...
When the UFP started out we took votes and appointed Alain. The problem
was that we forgot to appoint a vice.
BTW, I'm also in favor of a limited MetaCard license. That is, the
version of MetaCard that the UFP gets for this project shouldn't be
applicable for commercial projects. It should also display a message
somewhere (maybe at the bottom of each window) that mentions that this is
only for UFP use so there is no chance of this MetaCard license tourism.
There are too many people who would do things like this and they would slow
down development too much. Thus, we have to make this unattractive to them.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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