My 2c: 1) if you want someone to change their licensing, at least be willing to offer them some cash. basically, you buy the new licensing. this part is not free! I would go as far as saying it's unpolite to ask to switch a license without offering money.
2) If you write a clone, be original lest you be sued. 3) Colloquy IRC chat client is an example of a GPL software that has a BSD core and mobile version. Not sure if that's because the authors are the copyright holders so they can switch licensing as they please. See: http://colloquy.info/project/wiki/Source%20Code Ricardo Fabbri -- Linux registered user #175401 labmacambira.sf.net On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:20 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 08:51:23AM +0800, Simon Wise wrote: >>> >>> On 26/10/11 01:29, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> >>>> The Apple App Store is incompatible with the GPL and LGPL, from what I >>>> understand. Getting Apple to make their App Store compatible with the >>>> GPL and >>>> LGPL is another much better solution since it will work for all GPL and >>>> LGPL >>>> software. >>> >>> this is of course the best solution ... >> >> ---->8 snip license advocacy and geopolitical theory 8<---- >> >> I would like to register my disagreement. In my opinion, the solution >> which >> best serves the broad community of users -- including those users for whom >> expr's licensing is problematic -- is for Pd Vanilla to have uniform BSD >> licensing. It seems to me that an implementation of expr which is >> license-compatible with the rest of Vanilla is a perfectly reasonable and >> understandable feature request. >> >> The practical rationale is obvious: if GPL (or potentially LGPL) is not an >> option for you, then expr is missing from your toolkit, and it would be >> nice >> to have it. I understand that there are several valuable contributors >> within >> the Pd community who believe that it is important to deny that feature >> request >> for moral reasons. There are also opposing moral reasons to grant it, but >> as >> before, I intend to keep my developer list posts on licensing limited to >> dry mechanics if possible; if you absolutely cannot live without a >> sprinkle of >> BSD license advocacy to complement the on-list deluge of copyleft license >> advocacy, please ask off-list. > > > We're talking about freedom here. If you want to write a BSD-licensed expr > clone, please do. I don't think you'll find any objections. The objections > have been to people asking others to change the licenses they chose. > > .hc > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://at.or.at/hans/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
