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Re: [Nano-devel] updates, and relicensing questions...
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Jordi Mallach |
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Re: [Nano-devel] updates, and relicensing questions... |
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Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:56:19 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) |
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 02:23:14AM -0400, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
> It makes sense to relicense if there is some kind of benefit to be had. To
> relicense just for the sake of relicensing makes no sense. If you do
> decide to go this route I may just fork the current Nano release and keep
> my fork under GPLv3 as I see no benefit what so ever to have from GPLv3.
Roberto, nano is a GNU project, and GNU projects are going to move to
the GPL3 sooner or later. If we haven't brought this issue up on the
list a bit earlier is because we're probably all too busy, but it
certainly was on my agenda to discuss this.
The GPL3 is overall a better license than its predecessor. Why do you
threat with a fork? What's on the new licence that you can't stand?
Do you realise in a few months most of the GNU components will be under
this licence? Will you fork coreutils, tar, cpio, make, nano, compilers,
and all?
Just wondering,
Jordi
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