Re: [xmlvm-users] Clarifications on the Linking Exception

[Sascha H. <sa...@xm...>]

I would like add on top of what Arno said, that the 6 months is really
nothing we decided on inside the core team. And I agree, with you Gergely
and Panayotis, that any fixed time period would harm XMLVM as contributors
might delay submitting patches this way in order to get another 6 months.
So, forget about 6 months :)

I think, for people that continuously help the project, like the two of you
did and hopefully will do, there should be an ever-expanding time period and
you shouldn't have to wait until the current one expires. Example: You
submit a patch and we agree on a linking exception for XX months. After a
week you have another patch of the same size. Then I think it is reasonable
to add XX months to the expiration date. Is that something that makes sense?

Also, if you say you have a monster patch, and let's assume we choose to
accept it in the project, then this time period could really be extremely
long so that it essentially goes to infinity for practical purposes.

But I think you agree, that somebody who contributes a lot less, should be
limited in the use of the linking exception, but should still benefit from
it, but for a shorter period of time.

// Sascha

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Arno Puder <ar...@pu...> wrote:

>
>
> On 3/17/10 7:06 AM, Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote:
> > So, practically that's my original question: a client comes and asks
> > me to write an application for them (and that's a real scenario).
> > I write the application, I compile it and I upload it to app store.
> > With this new aspect, there is no need for the client to purchase
> > XMLVM, right?
> >
> > If of course they want the complete source code and they want to make
> > changes to it and submit them to the app store, *then* they need the
> > license. In any other case they don't.
> > That's my interpretation of what you say.
> > Is it correct?
>
> Yes.
>
> > I couldn't agree more with Gergely.
> >
> > You can not really weight "early" or "heavy" patches, since they
> > exponentially help the project to evolve and/or to explode.
>
> I guess I really did a lot of harm with mentioning the 6 months. As I
> mentioned numerous times now, the length of the linking exception will
> depend on the significance of your contribution. If I understand you
> correctly with what you've written in the remainder of your message,
> some contributions warrant an unlimited linking exception. Is that what
> you have in mind? Would that solve your headaches?
>
> Arno
>
>
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