Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Proposal for all the babeldoc developers - CALL FOR VOTE

[Bruce M. <br...@mc...>]

I am leaning towards the Apache Public License - what do you think?  We need a 
vote one this.  Every who dis/agrees that a license change is in order, 
please respond yes or no.  If yes, please provide your opinion on the new 
license (if you have an opinion).  Voting closes this friday.

On Monday 09 June 2003 08:38 pm, Bill Harrelson wrote:
> How about just including a blanket statement in one README file with a date
> that overrides all headers in any file dated prior to the included date? 
> Then just update the headers one-by-one as they are touched?
>
> Language like "This license supersedes and takes precedence over all tems
> of any license statements in the following files:....  "  ought to do it.
>
> Bill
>
> On 9 Jun 2003 at 18:24, Bruce McDonald wrote:
> > Bill, All:
> >
> > I would very much like to move babeldoc to a less restrictive license.
> >  The big issue for me is the effort required to go through every
> > source file and changing the header comment.  Any volunteers?
> >
> > regards,
> > Bruce.
> >
> > On Monday 09 June 2003 02:13 pm, you wrote:
> > > Bruce,
> > >
> > > I have been playing with BabelDoc for while now and find it very
> > > useful, However, I have a commercial product that I want to combine
> > > with it.  The chances of me being able to secure investment with
> > > code combined under the GPL are vanishingly small.
> > >
> > > So, I would heartily endorse moving to the Apache Public License (as
> > > quickly as possible, as I would like to release a new version of my
> > > product within a month).  I currently have other Apache products in
> > > my product and it would make my life a lot easier.  Otherwise I have
> > > to figure out some "loose- coupling" of my product with BabelDoc
> > > that makes the separation clear.  This would significantly restrict
> > > the amount to which I could use it.
> > >
> > > ...one person's opinion, but I hope you will let me know what you
> > > decide.
> > >
> > > regards and thanks for the great software,
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > On 23 May 2003 at 9:13, Bruce McDonald wrote:
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > I have been thinking that trying to make babeldoc a Jakarta Apache
> > > > project might be an excellent idea.  So instead of being one of
> > > > 10000 projects on sourceforge we can be one of 50 on Jakarta.
> > > > High visibility.  And since we use mainly Jakarta libraries, it
> > > > would be a good fit.
> > > >
> > > > The issue is that we will have to re-license Babeldoc.  Now, in
> > > > order to do so, we need to all agree on this.  The license is the
> > > > Apache Public License.  This is more "liberal" than GPL in that
> > > > code *can* be made commercial and does not limit the linking with
> > > > proprietary code as much as GPL.  Your opinions and comments here
> > > > are welcome.  Anyway the idea is to move the code in this
> > > > direction.
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > Bruce McDonald.
> > > >
> > > >
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