Il 25/06/2013 12:25, Andrea Colangelo ha scritto: >> I'm really sorry of this thing and will get in touch with GeoGebra >> developers to ask for clarifications and understand whether it's >> possible to revert this decision. > > Hope they will understand DFSG's reasons. Please, keep me up-to-date with this > issue, I am very interested in it.
For sure. Unfortunately, I don't think good news are upcoming: GeoGebra developers (in particular, I communicated with Markus Hohenwarter, but I know that other people or representatives are answering with similar wordings) assert that the license of GeoGebra was only clarified, not modified. This is plainly false, since they added a NonCommercial clause to the Creative Commons they're using; I commented underlining this fact, but they didn't answer anymore. They say that the task of "clarifying" GeoGebra's license was performed by some not specified firm, "with many years of experience with software licensing". I don't understand whether GeoGebra developers wanted to change license in order to switch to a more commercial-oriented development model, or if this "experienced firm" just failed to understand what free software is and applied a non commercial license just because everyone does so. Unfortunately, upstream's unwillingness to answer my last email suggests the former... Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani <mascell...@poisson.phc.unipi.it> Pisa, Italy Web: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani Jabber: g.mascell...@jabber.org / giova...@elabor.homelinux.org
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