Re: GNUstep CoreData

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 09/08/13 12:30, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> All of that being said the copyright requirement does have the legal 
> effect of removing any doubt regarding who owns and is in control of 
> the code.  That is the one advantage it carries, but as for forking 
> rest assured it has been considered by some.
Well, when you think of opensource the second word you hear is "fork"... 
probably before learning "commit".

Forking has been considered for many reasons.. copyright issues... 
organization of the SVN repository... disagreement with leadership of 
the maintainers, refusal of patches, fixes, etc etc.

Every status has disadvantages. I do like the idea of a backed 
copyright, especially in the case something like cocotron would become a 
serious contender. Or A derivative project from our code (think about 
potential mac ports) would try to get closed and commercial.

On the other had, disadvantages are at hand.

Riccardo

PS: I bet that if we were stronger and more important, we could make 
some pressure on rms to make Obj-C a bit more important in GCC...