Re: [TCLCORE] GPL Licence in TCLLib added

[Emiliano <emi...@gm...>]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 12:19:47 +0100
Jan Nijtmans <jan...@gm...> wrote:

> Op vr 1 nov 2024 om 12:01 schreef Harald Oehlmann <
> har...@el...>:
> 
> > Dear TCLLib group,
> >
> > within commit:
> > https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/info/f5d6a5e51b7d8607
> > a GPL Licence was added in TCLLib.
> >
> > I see this highly critical.
> > To my understanding of the licence, the branch is not mergable any more
> > to any distribution branch, sorry.
> >
> 
> My guess is that the "mime" branch is a personal branch created
> by Nathan Coulter. I don't know why he didn't make this branch
> "private", it appears that no-one else than Nathan ever did
> any commit here. My suggestion would be, please @nathan, make
> this branch "hidden". Then all confusion is gone.
> 
>d The same holds for the "unchained" branch in Tcl (and Thread).
> It can never be merged to trunk for the same reason. This
> branch is already "hidden"
> 
> Conclusion: No problem at all, just a waste of time.

The real question is: why is someone (ab)using the limited resources of the
Tcl community at large to pursuit its own personal agenda?

Why isn't he pulling Tcl changes on his own personal fork (something it's
perfectly allowed in the Tcl license) instead of commiting to Tcl repos?.

IMO these kind of behaviour shouldn't be allowed at all in all tcl related
repos (Tcl/Tk core, tcllib, tklib, etc) since we have limited man power and
bandwidth.

Nobody is saying anything about the derived work; it's just that the Tcl
community should not be engaged in such forks due to its own limited
contribution man power.

-- 
Emiliano <emi...@gm...>