On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Tom Hacohen <t...@osg.samsung.com> wrote: > On 02/06/15 00:22, Carsten Haitzler wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:39:16 +0100 Tom Hacohen <t...@osg.samsung.com> said: >> >>> On 01/06/15 14:33, Andrew Williams wrote: >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> In EDI I have packaged a clone of the skeleton project (so you don't have >>>> to be online to use the feature) and made a few small improvements. Today >>>> it was pointed out to me that it is GPLv2/3 licensed which is not very >>>> helpful to people wanting to use it. >>>> >>>> https://git.enlightenment.org/tools/skeleton.git >>>> >>>> My intent is to move this to BSD - does anyone have objections to this >>>> plan? Specifically I need a response from Cedric, Jérémy and Tom who have >>>> contributed to this project over the last 18 months. >>>> >>>> I have already changed elm_code to LGPL expecting it's inclusion into EFL >>>> or Elementary and I will look at the license of EDI itself later. >>> >>> I'm in favour of moving it to BSD. As I said on IRC, it's crazy it was >>> created as GPL in the first place. >> >> i might even argue that skeletons should be "public domain" maybe? basically >> provide zero worries on license of an app you start making with edi - license >> choice is yours totally. that'd be the "right way" at least for core/common >> templates. perhaps very large/complex ones might come with more involved >> licenses... but the basic stuff... public domain. >> > > The problem with public domain is that it doesn't hold in all jurisdictions.
This can be avoided by using CC-0 which basically is a workaround for this issue and should be safe to use. > Anyhow, I renounce any copyright claims over the code in that repo. I > assign all rights to the public domain, and in jurisdictions who don't > allow that, I freely allow anyone to use it under the terms of the BSD > license. > > -- > Tom. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
