Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Jennings
On Thursday, 07 August 2008, at 09:57:00 (-0500), Nick Hughart wrote: > Can you move code from an LGPL/GPL app into a BSD library with the > permission of the author of that code and just that specific code? You can do anything you want with code if you have the permission of all authors of that

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-08 Thread David Seikel
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:22:06 -0400 Jose Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > statistics show that gpl/lgpl code and developers outnumber bsd ones > by orders of magnitude. Statistics show that Windows users outnumber Linux users by orders of magnitude. Does not mean we should all change to Wind

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Ian Caldwell
An we've already heard your arguments, case closed now get to work! We've already lost time, members and devs due to this ridiculous debate. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Jose Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carsten wrote: > > > ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political foot

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Dave Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > >> ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license >> is not a >> reason one way or another for success or failure if license

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Jose Gonzalez
Nick Hughart wrote: > Jose Gonzalez wrote: >> Nick wrote: >> >>> Jose Gonzalez wrote: Carsten wrote: > ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. > license is not a > reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are > oss anyway.

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Nick Hughart
Jose Gonzalez wrote: > Nick wrote: > >> Jose Gonzalez wrote: >>> Carsten wrote: >>> ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license is not a reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss anyway. we're squabbling about strawbe

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Jose Gonzalez
Nick wrote: > Jose Gonzalez wrote: >> Carsten wrote: >> >>> ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license >>> is not a >>> reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss >>> anyway. >>> we're squabbling about strawberry vs chocolate. >>> >>>

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Nick Hughart
Jose Gonzalez wrote: > Carsten wrote: > > >> ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license is not a >> reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss anyway. >> we're squabbling about strawberry vs chocolate. >> >> >> > > That's no doub

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Jose Gonzalez
Carsten wrote: > ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license is not a > reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss anyway. > we're squabbling about strawberry vs chocolate. > > That's no doubt true as a rule on any given project, but st

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Christopher Michael
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license is not a > reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss anyway. > we're squabbling about strawberry vs chocolate. > > here's how it will go: > > 1. existing libs.

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:57:00 -0500 Nick Hughart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:15:37 +0200 (CEST) Dave Andreoli > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > > > > > >> Thanks Raster!! finally a POW that respect the others :) > >> Are y

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Nick Hughart
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:15:37 +0200 (CEST) Dave Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > > >> Thanks Raster!! finally a POW that respect the others :) >> Are you sure that we can (safetly) use LGPL for apps? From what I read >> on the gnu site LGPL is e

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:15:37 +0200 (CEST) Dave Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > Thanks Raster!! finally a POW that respect the others :) > Are you sure that we can (safetly) use LGPL for apps? From what I read > on the gnu site LGPL is exaclty for libs, I didn't find nothing about > using L

Re: [E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread Dave Andreoli
- "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license > is not a > reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss > anyway. > we're squabbling about strawberry vs chocolate. > > here's

[E-devel] licensing - end it.

2008-08-07 Thread The Rasterman
ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license is not a reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss anyway. we're squabbling about strawberry vs chocolate. here's how it will go: 1. existing libs. the LGPL crowd - RESPECT the licenses already used. d