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

[Dejan K. <dej...@nb...>]

+1
I hope this licence change will attract more companies to use Babeldoc by
including it in their products. That could only help Babeldoc.

Dejan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce McDonald" <br...@mc...>
To: <Bil...@Ac...>
Cc: <bab...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Proposal for all the babeldoc developers -
CALL FOR VOTE


> 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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