On Thu, Jul 19, 2001, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> Who's Dave? My name is David.
Grrr... Easy, tiger ;-)
> Plucker does not (and should/will not) ever require or contain any
> components which require a license or that are not free.
Well, it's difficult to avoid the Palm SDK requirement ;-)
> ALL components required to build Plucker are GPL'd or free.
... and it should continue to be like that.
> Any third-party tool can do what they wish, proprietary or not, however, the
> Plucker project itself will not be able to accept those patches or additions
> internally if they require proprietary components or code.
I would like more info before I cast my vote. If the source code can be
compiled without this extra component, then it's OK with me (and the GPL
as I understand it). It's not a perfect solution, but if the code for the
tool is released under GPL then maybe someone else can rewrite the part
that requires this "bad" component.
Anyway, Lissi has not requested that we should include something non-
free in Plucker, she has only told us about her tool. If it's not
possible to include the tool and source code, we can at least include
a link to the tool. Regardless of whether the tool is included in the
Plucker project or not, Dirk can still include the tool in his package
(as long as the license for the component allows this).
/Mike
