27 Apr
2005
27 Apr
'05
11 a.m.
Thanks Jan - I do understand the philosophical arguments.
And like you, I'm also very keen on "free software as defined by the
FSF". That's why I publish over 100,000 lines of the stuff.
Jules
Jan Weil wrote:
Hi Julian,
welcome to the LAD world.
Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2005, 11:33 +0100 schrieb Julian Storer:
- Yes, it's a dual-license project. So if you
want to contribute, you'd
need to be happy about me taking over the copyright of any stuff you
send me. Obviously that's your personal decision, and please, I don't
have time to get drawn into endless boring discussions about the
morality of dual-licensing! My views on the dual-license is that it
keeps everything free for you GPL guys, and I get to make a (very small)
bit of cash in return for my 5 years hard work.
- Ok, I admit it, I'm a control freak about the code in Juce, so you'd
also have to be willing to let me rip your stuff to shreds and butcher
it to suit my sensibilities! (In fact, I think I'd probably prefer
messy, sketchy code that I can tidy up, rather than immaculate code that
isn't quite the way I like it!).
Just lurk for a while or study the ML archives and you'll find that many
of the LADs are very keen on [Free Software][0] as defined by the FSF.
I'm afraid that even though your project may well be worth it you won't
attract (m)any developers on this list by stating something like "you'd
need to be happy about me taking over the copyright of any stuff you
send me". You know, usually, we GPL guys are not interested in writing
"messy, sketchy code" which has to be tidied up. Instead of that I'd
consider the appreciation of each others work an essential part of OSS
development, where often enough a lot of passion is involved.
Just my thoughts.
[0]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html