Thanks a lot for sharing! Cheers,
Maynard On 13.07.22 02:48, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
The Python community as a whole is fairly hostile to GPL and related licenses. It was easier to go with the flow early on.--Noah RjOllos wrote on 7/12/22 5:32 PM:On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:16:40 PM UTC-7 Maynard Koch wrote: Hi all, for our final presentation there is one more thing we would like to know:Why is Trac licensed under a modified BSD license and, for example, notusing the GNU GPL? Thank you in advance! Cheers, MaynardThis predates my involvement in the project, but it was changed from GPL to 3-Clause BSD. I can't tell you the reasoning for certain, but my feeling from things I've heard over the year is that the founders of the project wanted to create software that could be used freely with few conditions attached.https://trac.edgewall.org/changeset/2127/ https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracHistory You might find this discussion interesting: https://groups.google.com/g/trac-dev/c/-g5IMATOjzg/m/Q1j74D9ES1IJ Ryan --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to trac-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:trac-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/trac-dev/a9c49b84-7568-4054-b610-87ef718f79b6n%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/trac-dev/a9c49b84-7568-4054-b610-87ef718f79b6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
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