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RE: [Xouvert-general] License question
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David Ross |
Subject: |
RE: [Xouvert-general] License question |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:01:35 -0700 |
Perhaps code the code could be put under a "dual license". But when I
read the xfree license it seemed to me to be more "open" than the
GPL--but that was just a glance.
David
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Of Massimo Santoro
Sent: 2003 August 18 7:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [Xouvert-general] License question
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 02:25, William Lahti wrote:
> I would like it to be GPLed too, but that would hinder our ability to
> recontribute the code back to XFree86.
This is the major problem in forking & changing license to GPL. Changing
license to GPL would make the fork even "worse", but what I was
wondering if
this "worse" would be really bad or not for a faster and better
improvement
of a graphical system for un*x machines.
IMHO two things might happen if the "GPL way" is chosen:
1 - hypothesizing, in a not distant future, the development of Xouvers
outclassing XFree86, this would probably reunite the projects again,
this
time under the GPL. The outclassing in software forks has many
precedents
(GCC/EGCS maybe the most famous one) and almost always a unique
"winner".
2 - if things won't be "good" for Xouvert (developers and people not
really
interested therefore lack of interest in developing it), we will say "at
least we gave it a try" and being the Xouvert Team the "author" of the
Xouvert project, can change license to X11 and "reunite" the projects
again
contributing back.
Therefore, unless the will of continuously donating sources to XFree86
is
strong among the Xouvert Team, I believe there is really chance to make
X
GPL.
Massimo Santoro
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- [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, William Lahti, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/18
- RE: [Xouvert-general] License question,
David Ross <=
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/18
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Massimo Santoro, 2003/08/19
- Re: [Xouvert-general] License question, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/19
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