From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9438 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2006 18:01:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 9386 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2006 18:01:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.omnis.com (HELO smtp.omnis.com) (216.239.128.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:01:24 +0000 Received: from [10.3.2.11] (unknown [208.63.111.51]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E7820068E1; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:01:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43F4BDF1.4030402@dellroad.org> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:01:00 -0000 From: Archie Cobbs User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Ballard Cc: GNU Classpath , mauve-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Mauve license References: <43F4B2F9.9090801@dellroad.org> <43F4B90E.9030209@dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 Stuart Ballard wrote: > The point is that, for whatever reasons (rational or irrational), some > people simply won't contribute to a GPL-licensed project. Some of > those people are Harmony contributors. If those people want to > contribute to a Java testsuite, which they do, it won't be Mauve as > long as Mauve is GPL. Well then IMHO those people are the ones who are being "difficult" and putting politics over progress. Saying you won't contribute to a GPL project is more a political statement than the result of some reasonable decision-making process, because even if you do contribute to GPL software, you still own the copyright so you can also release your code under any other license you choose. Personally I don't love the GPL because it imposes more restrictions than a BSD style license (making, in my opinion, GPL software less free). But I respect others' religious beliefs. So if the GPL is not otherwise in the way, I have no problem working with it, etc. "Can't we all just get along?" :-) -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com