Re: [f-cpu] F-CPU vs ALPHA and licence

[nicO <nicolas.boulay@ifrance.com>]

Michael Riepe a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:40:44AM +0200, Yann Guidon wrote:
> [...]
> > > It's still possible to change our licence because few people write
> > > code(whygee and Michael, that's all i think). I think that LGPL are more
> > > appropriate.
> >
> > i am against, you are not. I will follow Michael Riepe's choice.
> > What does he vote for ? i do not want to spoil the situation
> > between you and me so i prefer to listen to others's choices.
> > As you know, i am not the reincarnation of the project.
> 
> Neither am I.
> 
> I may change my mind in the future, but at the moment I see absolutely no
> reason to switch to LGPL.  I want people to have access to the *complete*
> source code of their F-CPU (or derived work), not only to the public
> parts.  It's a matter of philosophy, not business.  The money makers will
> not like the idea, of course -- but do I have to care for them?  Do I have
> to feed them?  If they want to make Euros, they shall sit down and *work*.
> 
> There is currently only a single reason why I might be convinced to
> switch to another license (and that does not automatically mean LGPL):
> if the GPL makes it impossible to produce F-CPU chips legally.  We can
> cross that bridge when we reach it, so please stop this fruitless F-CPU
> license discussion now.
> 

For me, the only think that a compagny could do is only to make the fcpu
as we design it, only. So i think that too few compagny will find there
way to produice an fcpu : what will be the difference with the other
compagny : where is the added value ? Nowdays, the chip are SoC, so it
bring together a lot of IP. In your case, fcpu couldn't be mixed with
private IP to be part of big project (as PDA, or ...). And it's annoying
me.

nicO

> I don't mind if other project members decide to put their sources under
> LGPL.  We can convert the license to GPL for the F-CPU, and others may
> use the same sources under the terms of the LGPL (which is a win for them,
> while we lose nothing -- we don't even have to release our modifications
> under LGPL if we don't want to).
> 
> --
>  Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
>  "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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