[s1mp3-dev] Licensing - (L)GPL x FreeBSD

[Legolas]

seventh guardian ha scritto:

>>Agrees with you. I have a proposal to end this discussion :
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>>1. Everyone is free to choose and stick with the license they think it's
>>best.
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>Agree.
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I would better like us to choose a license and to go with it. It's not 
easy "Everyone is free to choose and stick with the license they think 
it's best." since lots of problems may rise

>>3. If it was a work done by a group, the person who contributed most to that
>>work gets to decide the license of the code.
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>I believe the others should have their proportional vote.
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I do not have any real comment but I felt the necessity to use the word 
"anarchy" in some way. Sorry but I don't believe it would be feasible :(

>Well, an API is just an API, so it shouldn't be licensed. The software
>supporting the API would be licensed acordingly with the author(s)'s
>will, and every one would be free to write their own version
>(respecting the author's rights, of course.)
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I really hate people rewriting the same code. Code gets rewritten 
everyday, I would like to contribute limiting this behaviour if possible.
"my wheel is GPL and my wheel is FreeBSD". It's always a wheel, please 
let's do not waste time...

>Well, it's true. Most of the work has been on the website rather than on the actual code.
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You cannot start writing code from istant 0 for a bucket of reasons. 1st 
reason: it is not as easy as writing a solitaire game, 2nd reason: it 
has something to do with an obscure hardware and its low-level 
management... I agree that a lot of work has been done for and on the 
website but we have not wasted time on the code front, we are (I hope) 
doing things in a well planned way (apart from the latest discussion 
about licensing, which is everything but not planned ;)

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  Legolas