Re: [Netatalk-devel] Another reason to go GPL


Subject: Re: [Netatalk-devel] Another reason to go GPL
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 13:11:28 EST


        While we're on this topic, I just shut down the licensing survey on
the SourceForge site. The results were pretty much as reflected in the
lists: (please remember that this survey was not scientific, just a tool
used to gauge overall opinions and such. It didn't appear to have any
instances of ballot-stuffing - Thank you all for your cooperation on that).
        Where to go from here? I don't know. After we get 1.5 out the door,
this will become more important.

        (++ = 1, + = 2, 0 = 3, - = 4, -- = 5)

Keep BSD-style licensing:
        3 ++
        1 +
        1 0
        1 -
GPL all of Netatalk
        6 ++
        4 +
        2 0
LGPL lib, GPL everything else
        3 ++
        5 +
        1 0
        1 -
LGPL all of Netatalk
        2 ++
        1 +
        5 0
        3 -

        
On 2001.03.27 12:55:37 -0500 andrew morgan wrote:
>
> Here's another reason we should go GPL with netatalk. Samba has a piece
> of code which does quotas on Veritas File Systems which I need to use at
> our site. Same problem as the file locking code though. We can't take
> GPL code and place it in netatalk without releasing netatalk as GPL.
>
> I may be able to get permission from the author of that particular piece
> of code to include it in netatalk anyways, but the samba project itself
> will not release the code for our use.
>
> GPL - just do it. :P
>
> Andy
>
>
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Matthew Keller
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State University of NY at Potsdam

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