Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed & blueprints

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Mittwoch 10 September 2008, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > > I am stiff carefull with LP until it has been open sourced. Canocial is
> >
> > a
> >
> > > strange company. they even force a us to BSD-license LP translations.
> >
> > What
> >
> > > the f*. I personally will not put too much effort into migrating from
> >
> > open
> >
> > > source tools to closed source until the cash in on their promise to
> > > open source LP.
> >
> > Ooooo! I didn't notice that. As I prefer open source and Gnumed needs
> > consistent licensing (not mixed GNU and BDS), I would stay away from
> > closed source.
>
> To me it wouldn't matter too much if the translation is BSD licensed. Much
> different with code, blueprints or code:
>
> I wouldn't want Canonical to be able to take community docs/code/feature
> descriptions and commercialize them.
>
They use translations across projects. I believe that is why the license 
change was requested.

> Karsten



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