Specific graphics can relate to branding; if they didn't want to do that, I can
understand it.
They did put a lot of work into clang/llvm and CUPS, and that's certainly
benefited others. They've open sourced some things they wrote themselves (or
bought), like libdispatch and the Swift
Exactly. This is the problem. One says "allow me so I can improve
the project" and
after you allow s/he says "I will not contribute back".
This was why I mentioned Apple. Is it true of false that Apple
used BSD to build
their Os? Is it true
I can see both sides of the argument, although I must say that permissive
licenses rarely see corporate users contribute back their code, Andrew
tanenbaum, creator of Minix, received a letter from an employee of intel
stating how intel preferred permissively licensed software to copyleft
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Subject: Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Moving to MIT license
On 14/06/2018 09:23 πμ, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
> Antonis Tsolomitis writes:
>
>> And what people mean by "LGPL is restrictive" ? Restrictive for who?
> For any developer touching the code.
Exac
On 14/06/2018 09:23 πμ, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
Antonis Tsolomitis writes:
And what people mean by "LGPL is restrictive" ? Restrictive for who?
For any developer touching the code.
Exactly. So when someone says "restrictive" it makes no sense. S/he must say
"restrictive to the developer
Antonis Tsolomitis writes:
> And what people mean by "LGPL is restrictive" ? Restrictive for who?
For any developer touching the code.
> I am mainly a user. And for example the "original BSD" is very restrictive
> for my freedom
> (and very nice for Apple by the way).
> And if such a license
On 13/06/2018 05:06 πμ, Matthew R.
Trower wrote:
Jon Trulson writes:
Well, I'd like to move to an MIT license, but I haven't heard any
other opinions.
I'd be in favor of moving to the MIT license at some point (or BSD for
that
So then we will not move to MIT anymore? It doesn't matter either way for me, I
just want to get it out of the way so we can get other things done. If this is
the case, we should take the MIT stuff off of the wiki.
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
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On 06/12/2018 05:22 PM, Chase wrote:
I guess the only way to get the ball rolling is to wait for peter to
get back then... Shame as our move to MIT could fix the licensing
issues when trying to implement a newer version of ast-ksh.
According to a one-liner from Peter on #cde, we would need
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Christopher Turkel wrote:
I see can see the political reasons for the move and software projects
have moved licenses for worse reasons. I'd like a BSD license of some
kind, I'd be in favor of it.
MIT, and BSD licenses are great. I won't harp on the ones I don't like as
I see can see the political reasons for the move and software projects have
moved licenses for worse reasons. I'd like a BSD license of some kind, I'd
be in favor of it.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:06 PM Matthew R. Trower
wrote:
> Jon Trulson writes:
>
> > Well, I'd like to move to an MIT
Jon Trulson writes:
> Well, I'd like to move to an MIT license, but I haven't heard any
> other opinions.
I'd be in favor of moving to the MIT license at some point (or BSD for
that matter, but MIT is what's on the table). I'd be more satisfied
with it politically.
I'm not sure that we *need*
I don't see the point of moving to the MIT license, I'm not against it, I
just don't see the point.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:32 PM Jon Trulson wrote:
> On 06/12/2018 05:22 PM, Chase wrote:
> > The headers can be changed with a simple used find and replace.
> >
>
> Which touches a lot of files
On 06/12/2018 05:22 PM, Chase wrote:
The headers can be changed with a simple used find and replace.
Which touches a lot of files and can be error prone...
It wasn't the install database, my bad, was thinking of something different,
its used in dtinfo, for the library dtmmdb, but the point
On 06/11/2018 06:15 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to know, what is holding up our move to the MIT license?
Well, I'd like to move to an MIT license, but I haven't heard any other
opinions. I am also not sure what would be involved, or ultimately,
whether there
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