Re: [Zeitgeist] [Bug 499788] Re: License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later"

2010-01-07 Thread markus korn
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Siegfried Gevatter wrote: > Back to this, I thought I'd make sense to analyze what this means before > we do any decision. Please correct me if there's anything I got wrong! > Thanks Siegfried for this detailed explanation, for me it is obvious that we don't get an

Re: [Zeitgeist] [Bug 499788] Re: License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later"

2010-01-07 Thread Seif Lotfy
No one is getting hurt with 3 I change my vote lets stay with 3 2010/1/7 Siegfried Gevatter > 2010/1/7 Seif Lotfy : > > Here is how i see it. More People use our code the more consultancy we > can > > provide even for proprietary. > > Yes, but I think you are mixing up "linking" and "copying". >

Re: [Zeitgeist] [Bug 499788] Re: License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later"

2010-01-07 Thread Siegfried Gevatter
2010/1/7 Seif Lotfy : > Here is how i see it. More People use our code the more consultancy we can > provide even for proprietary. Yes, but I think you are mixing up "linking" and "copying". Proprietary applications *can* use Zeitgeist (be it over D-Bus, the Python module or whatever). What they

Re: [Zeitgeist] [Bug 499788] Re: License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later"

2010-01-07 Thread Siegfried Gevatter
2010/1/7 Seif Lotfy : > We have a slight issue with _zeitgeist/loggers/iso_strptime.py > [...] >  Software Foundation, version 3 of the License. Yes, this is effectively making Zeitgeist LGPL3 (not even LGPLv3+). If we switched to "LGPL2+", as long as we have this file it would still be, effective

Re: [Zeitgeist] [Bug 499788] Re: License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later"

2010-01-07 Thread Seif Lotfy
We have a slight issue with _zeitgeist/loggers/iso_strptime.py File _zeitgeist/loggers/iso_strptime.py is part of wadllib, which is copyright © 2009 by Canonical Ltd. It is released under the following license: wadllib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or

Re: [Zeitgeist] [Bug 499788] Re: License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later"

2010-01-07 Thread Seif Lotfy
OK I am waiting for Markus's reply. Here is how i see it. More People use our code the more consultancy we can provide even for proprietary. But I also agree on people respecting our work :) Code wise from stuff that is being used actively its only. 1. Seif 2. Natan 3. Siegfried 4. Mikkel 5. Mark