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Re: [ba-ohs-talk] ohs cvs? [Licensing]



--- "Paul D. Fernhout" <pdfernhout@kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:    (01)

> the license issue so I can participate.) Personally, I find it much 
> legally safer to contribute to free or open source efforts
> unencumbered 
> by "permission to use", and to likewise not directly use any
> Bootstrap 
> related mailing contents as source materials due to "permission to
> use".    (02)

I agree with you.    (03)

the bootstrap/ohs project has some good ideas and lots of great and
intelligent people on the list.     (04)

It is shame we cannot have a clear vision and leadership in this
project, many of us contribute to projects on a regular basis. It is a
shame that such a high profile project cannot lay a foundation that
attracts developers.    (05)

> Also, Chris Dent et al. had the problem of finding their university
> not immediately amenable to letting them release their source code 
> under a non-proprietary license (has this been resolved?) so actually
> this (and  other examples) makes me much more inclined to contribute
> significant works only under the copylefted licesnes like the GPL or
> LGPL    (06)

> (naturally  others might choose other things for other reasons), 
> whereas I think the 
> license supposedly decided on here is/was MPLish?    (07)

Yes, that is what I remember. And that was done is such a way that I
dont feel very happy with. I dont think there is a big problem with
MPL, but still the decisions seems to be pushed on top of us by someone
who does not write any code anyway.    (08)

mike    (09)

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/    (010)

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