Hi, I got a hint that there is a license problem in QLGT. The newly introduced tzone library is GPL3 whereas QLGT is GPL2. I would have said GPL is GPL, but it looks like Richard Stallmann loves to force licenses to people, even if they use his former pet license. A waste of time if you ask me.
Anyway, if it would be just for tzone I would say "skip it, I write that part of my own". However upcoming QT5 is GPL3, too. I am not sure if I want to migrate to QT5 and when that would be. But if I want, the license has to be changed. To change the license I have to ask every contributor to agree. Hell, Stallmann, do you know how many contributions a project receives over the years? And do you know how many of those patches are sent with an email address that obviously won't exist for a long time? Man, stop evangelizing the world. Get a real project on your own again, to digest your own license mess. Anyway, I don't really care about the license. I choose the GPL because I do not want to see my code misused by closed source projects. It's open, everyone is welcome to read it and to extract information from it. But I do not want it blatantly copied, nor do I want to see a closed source version of QLGT. That's why it is GPL. Because it's impossible to me to ask everyone contributing in the past, I assume the following: Everyone who is interested in QLGT and it's development, is subscribed to the list. Everyone not subscribed does not really care and in case he/she contributed code, does not really care about the license. Thus all of you that care, is there any objection to change the license to GPL3? Seriously, if you are not happy to change, we have to discuss that, apart from my personal opinion about Richard Stallmann's personal little war against what ever. I have a deep respect for everyone contributing to the project. And I do not want to snub anyone. In case there are no objections that can't be resolved I will change the license in a few weeks. Well under the risk that someone not on the list will object later. But that is the only feasible solution from my point of view. Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
