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On 18/04/14 18:12, Matthias Toussaint wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Joel Holdsworth 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> I've been discussing with the guys on #sigrok, and we noticed some 
> inconsistency in the license statements between various parts of
> your website, and source file headers in the tar-ball.
> 
> 
>> Yeah, it's probably a big mess.
> 
> 
> If you're willing to relicense, I think the best way would be for
> you to make a release that just modifies the file headers to
> explicitly state the license as GPLv3 - and update the website to
> reflect the change.
> 
>> That was precisely the plan. I need first to update the sources
>> to reflect the new license and maybe apply some minor changes and
>> then make that public. I will do that with QtDMM in the near
>> future (I'm quite busy with work right now, so it will take a few
>> days). I even think someone at sigrok should take over the
>> project (QtDMM) and maintain it in the future. What do you think?
>> No friendly fork needed then. I can send you the email addresses
>> of the various distribution maintainers (Ubuntu, SuSe etc.) in
>> that case, so you can get in contact with them.

I'll discuss it with the others, but my personal view is that this
would be the ideal plan.

I've been working on the code, and it almost compiles on Qt4 now:
https://github.com/jhol/qtdmm . After you make your release, I'll
rebase my branch on top of that and see about getting it working with
libsigrok, and hosted at sigrok.org.

> 
>> cdmm and QtDMM2 (maybe I'll change the name) will stay the way
>> they are for the moment. I'm still unhappy with it, but I want to
>> make a release in the near future that is actually usable. It's
>> not far from that point. The GUI still has a few kinks (it's
>> quite different from the old GUI and supports multiple devices) I
>> started to look again at the code to get familiar with it again.
>> When ready for public I'll probably relicense it to GPLv3-only
>> too (Yeah, I know: release early, release often ... but I don't
>> feel like in this case)
> 
> Do you agree? and are you happy to go ahead and do that?
> 
>> Sure, I'm happy that the quite ancient (for a piece of software)
>> QtDMM still has users and friends. If I was you, I would port all
>> missing drivers to libsigrok and make QtDMM use libsigrok
>> instead.

Yup that's my plan.


Thanks
Joel

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