Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

Its public domain, thats very free, GPL has had is day as a free
license, but version 3 has clauses that are very restrictive to others
that want to contirbute, i no longer will even consider working on GPL
v3 code.


On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 09:17 -0500, John Griessen wrote:
>> OpenNurbs.org has the code, public domain.  He's considering forking
>> and licensing it GPL.
>
> IMO, that sounds like quite an aggressive thing to do to a code base..
> particularly forking, then choosing a less permissive license to release
> under.
>
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