The only significant upside to GPL v3 that I can discern would be
compatibility with Apache 2.0 license. That would be nice, but certainly
not at the cost of being able to collaborate with other VNC vendors. As
DRC pointed out, there is still a clear benefit for both TigerVNC and
TurboVNC (at least with the java viewers) from being able to share code.
I don't see how DRM is relevant within the context of TIgerVNC, but I do
think that "tivoization" could apply, particularly to the java viewer. HW
vendors embed java VNC viewers all the time in order to do things like
provide a remote management console accessible via an embedded http server.
Whether or not they choose to prevent end-users from overriding their
embedded software is, IMO, their business not mine, so from that standpoint
I don't really support the "tivoization" clause. It seems somewhat
hypocritical to me...
Unless there is some factor that I'm missing which directly affects the
TigerVNC project, then I would prefer not to change.
-brian
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:00 AM, DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net>wrote:
> On 2/15/13 3:38 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > But GPLv2 is broken, that's the point. Instead of me trying to
> > reiterate things, I'll just point to FSF's page on the matter:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html
>
> We've been through this before. FSF thinks GPL v2 is broken, and Linus
> thinks GPL v3 is broken. You can choose your own religion on the
> matter, but I don't think everything that either party says should be
> considered gospel, personally. The FSF wrote the license, so of course
> they're going to be in favor of it.
>
> I will refer you to my previous response on the matter:
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=21930606
>
> I look at this from a risk management point of view. The chances of
> someone abusing the GPL v2 in such a way that the GPL v3 would protect
> against it are miniscule. The chances of isolating TigerVNC from the
> rest of the VNC community by upgrading its license are, on the other
> hand, about 100%.
>
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