Jeroen, Put simply, there are those of us who have long standing issues with GPL licensing. Now whether or not those issues have any merit is another story altogether. It wouldn't be such a wise move to risk alienating people who are not comfortable with the GPL but are willing to code for plex86 under its present licensing. At present, plex86 is suffering from a severe lack of direction. The licensing issue should not really be a concern at present. It's LGPL which is close enough to the GPL to satisfy the "free software" status that you are looking for while at the same time remaining "open" enough to keep those of us who aren't comfortable with the GPL happy and programming.
What we really need to be focusing on is the re-organization of all those willing to program for plex86 and start developing code again. Worrying about the license when we've got one that works gets us nowhere. Drew, Is that CVS fully operational yet? And if so, then what seems to be our hang-up here? R. King ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeroen Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [plex86] Re: Should plex86 be a GNU project? (Was: Re: Working with students as part of a class [plex86]) > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:41:55PM -0400, Drew Northup wrote: > > I have lots of problems with it. > > Can you actually say what the exact problems are? Plex86 is already > hosted on savannah, making it a GNU project only changes a small set > of things (like the URL of the webspace provided by the FSF). We still > decide everything, we are only part of a system. We get some > advertising by being a GNU project. But what is actual a very big > advantage is that the FSF will help with any legal trouble (including > patent issues). > > Jeroen Dekkers > -- > Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org > IRC: jeroen@openprojects
