Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-16 Thread Juan David Ibáñez Palomar
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jimmie Houchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPL would protect DC from predatory competitors. It would also allow for Zope's adoption in certain environments. I also believe some people And prevent it in others. would relicense their products to the

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-16 Thread Juan David Ibáñez Palomar
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:48:20 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juan David Ibáñez Palomar) wrote: it's illegal to distribute GPL code together with [ZPL] code I dont see this as an issue for Zope (taken as a whole). There is no problem with other developers releasing GPL products for

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-16 Thread Simon Michael
Simon Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or, if someone wants to distribute something which includes zope and one or more GPL products. I mean, eg, you want to distribute your end-user package Easy Portal Creator 2000, based on zope/ptk/squishdot/zwiki.

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-15 Thread Paul Everitt
Some quick points on this. First, feel free to talk on this list about ways that Zope developers can license their stuff. It's a constructive discussion, and since I'm not a Zope developer, I can ignore it. :^) Second, regarding the licensing of Zope itself, ChrisP is right that I'm the guy

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I personally do not have a problem with the Zope license. However, I do use a lot of GPLed software and appreciate it. I also am appreciative of the ability to use Zope and to take advantage of the wonderful work that DC has produced. When the original debate occurred I was in support of DC

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-15 Thread Ty Sarna
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jimmie Houchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPL would protect DC from predatory competitors. It would also allow for Zope's adoption in certain environments. I also believe some people And prevent it in others. would relicense their products to the GPL if it

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Withers
Juan David IbXXez Palomar wrote: software, but I know there's people that don't use Zope because of this incompatibility. their loss... Chris ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Withers
Juan David IbXXez Palomar wrote: And more, there's already zope software with the GPL license, for example ZWiki. ZWiki is included in Debian, probably the Debian developer that maintains the package is not aware of these license issues. Has any open source license issue actually come to

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Juan David Ibáñez Palomar
Has any open source license issue actually come to court yet? How many people really care about this compared to the number of people who just want to get on, develop and use software in an open source community fashion and don't want to get involved in religious flame wars? My $0.02

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Christopher Petrilli
this is not about religion and a flame war is the last thing I want I only wanted to let you know about these facts, and yes there're projects that have been hurt by "license issues", for example KDE. Regaurding licensing, twhile I wouldn't want to snuff out freedom of speech, I would say

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Juan David Ibáñez Palomar
Regaurding licensing, twhile I wouldn't want to snuff out freedom of speech, I would say that we have already had the "Licensing Wars" about 18 months ago, and things are settled and non negotiable at this point. Arguing only creates tension in the community, which does more damage

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Simon Michael
Juan, thanks for shining some light towards this murky area. Maybe ZWiki and other zope products need to be LGPL or dual-licensed, maybe the zope license can use some refinement. I for one won't know without seeing some enlightened discussion of the issue. This stuff is unsexy but important.

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-13 Thread Lalo Martins
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:40:31PM +0100, Juan David Ibáñez Palomar wrote: has come to my ears that there's people who doesn't use Zope because its license is GPL-incompatible, more info here: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses They say it's an