From: Dale A. <da...@gr...> - 2012-02-28 11:44:32
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I tend to find licenses tedious and counter-productive. I would prefer that a license not be required and that open source code could really be open, that is, free of licenses and copyright restrictions. I tend to use the more liberal licenses, like Apache and BSD. I don't care for GPL because it has its own set of restrictions. For Javasidekick, I don't care, although I'd prefer that code I've written doesn't get relicensed with a more restrictive license. Dale On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Matthieu Casanova <cho...@gm...>wrote: > In fact most of them are GPL, but it is not mandatory, the plugin > developpers can choose another licence if they want to. > > > 2012/2/27 Damien Radtke <dam...@gm...> > >> I apologize if I've jumped the gun a little on this one, but I'm just >> starting to get into the habit of "cleaning up" some of my old code, and >> part of that includes adding the license comment at the top. I just assumed >> that all jEdit plugins were licensed under the GPL. >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Jarek Czekalski < >> jar...@po...> wrote: >> >>> Dale, maybe it's time to clear things about javasidekick license. You >>> put a license note in JavaSideKickPlugin.java which is not gnu. Some >>> files, like JavaSideKickParsedData, have gnu license note. >>> AntClassLoader has Apache license. Looks like all these licenses are >>> compatible with gnu gpl and may be included to a gnu gpl package. There >>> is no license.txt file at all (by the way, this regards to many other >>> plugins as well). Damien got misleaded by that and other developers may >>> also be. >>> >>> Here are the rules from jedit plugins page: >>> >>> === begin quote >>> Licensing >>> >>> Unless otherwise stated in a plugin's binary package, each of the >>> plugins made available on this site (or through jEdit's Plugin Manager) >>> is licensed for use and redistribution under the terms of the GNU >>> General Public License (either version 2 or any later version, as the >>> user chooses). Be aware that some plugins are also distributed with >>> third-party code that is made available under a GPL-compatible license, >>> not necessarily the GPL. >>> === end quote >>> >>> If it wasn't possible to ask you directly, I would say that each >>> developer adding code to javasidekick files is legitimate to change the >>> license of the file to gnu 2 or later. Is that correct? Anyway >>> developers will rarely feel the need to do so. >>> >>> Thanks, Jarek >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Try before you buy = See our experts in action! >>> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >>> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >>> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 >>> -- >>> ----------------------------------------------- >>> jEdit Developers' List >>> jEd...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Try before you buy = See our experts in action! >> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------- >> jEdit Developers' List >> jEd...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > jEdit Developers' List > jEd...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel > > |