My 2c:
- if you want someone to change their licensing, at least be willing
to offer them some cash. basically, you buy the new licensing. this part is not free! I would go as far as saying it's unpolite to ask to switch a license without offering money.
If you write a clone, be original lest you be sued.
Colloquy IRC chat client is an example of a GPL software that has a
BSD core and mobile version. Not sure if that's because the authors are the copyright holders so they can switch licensing as they please. See:
http://colloquy.info/project/wiki/Source%20Code
Ricardo Fabbri
Linux registered user #175401 labmacambira.sf.net
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at wrote:
On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:20 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 08:51:23AM +0800, Simon Wise wrote:
On 26/10/11 01:29, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The Apple App Store is incompatible with the GPL and LGPL, from what I understand. Getting Apple to make their App Store compatible with the GPL and LGPL is another much better solution since it will work for all GPL and LGPL software.
this is of course the best solution ...
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I would like to register my disagreement. In my opinion, the solution which best serves the broad community of users -- including those users for whom expr's licensing is problematic -- is for Pd Vanilla to have uniform BSD licensing. It seems to me that an implementation of expr which is license-compatible with the rest of Vanilla is a perfectly reasonable and understandable feature request.
The practical rationale is obvious: if GPL (or potentially LGPL) is not an option for you, then expr is missing from your toolkit, and it would be nice to have it. I understand that there are several valuable contributors within the Pd community who believe that it is important to deny that feature request for moral reasons. There are also opposing moral reasons to grant it, but as before, I intend to keep my developer list posts on licensing limited to dry mechanics if possible; if you absolutely cannot live without a sprinkle of BSD license advocacy to complement the on-list deluge of copyleft license advocacy, please ask off-list.
We're talking about freedom here. If you want to write a BSD-licensed expr clone, please do. I don't think you'll find any objections. The objections have been to people asking others to change the licenses they chose.
.hc
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