This was meant for foundation-list; sorry. Chris fre, 06.08.2004 kl. 21.21 +0200, skrev Christoffer Olsen: > I don't want to be the one saying it, but; chill down the tone, please. > > It is not aimed at anyone participating in the discussion, but I do > beleive it's a storm in a teacup as Jeff says. > > Although, there must also be an understanding that the GPL and the > copyright assignment aren't unrelated as such, since Novell will release > the transfered software under the GPL _and_ any licence they wish. I > understand that it's a problem to contribute to something when one wants > to keep ones code out of proprietary territory. This doesn't > nescessarily go against Novell, or Evolution, but it's just a fact that > someone wants it one way, and someone wants it the other. So you have a > choice: Contribute, or don't. If there is sufficient pressuer or loss of > developer base, maybe Novell will accept further limiting clauses to the > transfer - or maybe they won't. That is a decision on their part, not > ours. > > People have all their right to say what they mean, but I expect people > to respect contrary opinions. In the end, Evolution is Free Software, > and released under the GPL. That means it should not be kept out of the > Desktop, IMO. But in the end, I do believe it's up to the Release Team, > that is a part of our representative democracy, to decide what is right > to include and what's not. Someone will dislike the decision, but > there's no way to please everyone in this matter. > > With this, I close this discussion from my end. Hopefully, we can accept > the fact that disagreements always will exist, and close down the > discussion as a whole. > > Christoffer > > fre, 06.08.2004 kl. 20.11 +0100, skrev Rui Miguel Seabra: > > On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:58 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > <quote who="Rui Miguel Seabra"> > > > > It's supposed to be GPL, not GPL, or anything else. > > > > > > > So you consider acceptable to include as an official module one with a > > > > licensing scheme created with the purpose of circunventing the GPL? > > > > > > I am not convinced you understand the discussion or issues at hand. > > > > And I reject your dismissiveness. > > > > > You seem > > > to think copyright assignment and the GPL are somehow related. They are not. > > > > But one can be, and is, used with the intention of cirunventing the > > other. > > > > > Perhaps you should refrain from posting until you have some context on what > > > we are discussing here. > > > > Perhaps you should refrain your blind trust and use an analytical > > insight. Instead of a problem in need of solving, you react as if my > > intention was attacking a project (that I love to use) and its > > developers. > > > > Rui > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-list mailing list > > foundation-list gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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