Re: [myhdl-list] Proposal to change license of wwww.myhdl.org

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

On 05/01/2011 10:35 AM, loz...@fr... wrote:
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>> The intent is that any content can be freely re-used and modified,
>> including for commercial purposes, provided that any derived work
>> is licensed under the same conditions.
>
> (Note: This is independent of the proposed license change.)
>
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> Then we all have a problem.  To make MyHDL vibrant, we need a
> commercial class that goes to places like Hacker's Dojo in Silicon
> Valley and teaches newbies the material, and rapidly grows the
> community.
>
> I am not willing to put together such a class, if I have to do it all
> from scratch.  And I am not willing to do it using existing
> materials, if it means I have to open source the whole class.  Nor do
> I see anyone else even interested in creating the teaching materials.
> Sure Chris Felton did a great job in creating the basic tutorials,
> but there is so much other work to create and market such a class.
> And I do not see anyone doing it.
>
> So we all have a problem here.

Let's see, what problem could that be?

Right from the start, you made it very clear that you were looking
for a closed-source project. For the record, I personally think
that's absolute fine. Certainly it didn't prevent several people
to offer help, myself included. Actually, some went to work
immediately with considerable efforts.

Now you're telling us that all those people have run away. Even   
the "great team" on your class website has apparently already
been dissolved. There must be something in your approach
that they dislike very much.

There is no scapegoat to be found in closed source or the
absence of potential help. The real question is how it is
even possible to waste so much goodwill in such a small
period of time.

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