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

John Griessen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> He finds there is little community involved using it and no one improving the code
> except the original commercial publisher for bug fixes.  That's
> the only reason for a fork.

...or the forker has sigificant issues with the way in which the
original author/project leader is managing the original tool.  For
example, the "IPCop" fork of "Smoothwall".


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