Hello Oliver, first to say: thanks for sharing your work to the community!
I do belive that almost all users of qlgt are happy to have this piece of fine done software available for free use for private purposes. I do also believe, almost all will respect the GPL as is for qlgt. I do hope, that commercial users do also respect the terms of the appropriate GPL and do not misuse your code. As I am a nearly 100% user and not someone who has the skills to work on your software other than submitting bug reports, I personally to not have any concerns if the GPL is version 2 or 3. I fact, I really have to read both and understand both before I could really decide for myself, but to be honest, I always only overviewed a GPL rather than reading and really understanding the legal claims written in english inside these GPL ... ;-) So if it helps, I don't care about my little tiny contributions in the form of bug reports at all ... I wish the project and your enthusiasm to stay and not to be choked down by this GPL issues. Thanks again and best regards, Marcus Am 15.03.2013 09:23, schrieb Oliver Eichler: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
