Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 August 2009 20:17:19 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > 2. You, as the author, are the only one who could dual license it to
> > stop such discussions once and for all.
>
> I already asked you to stop your claims!
>
> What you are doing is called slander.
>
> There is no need to dual license the code as there is no license problem.

Jörg, 

Tom Galloway said that dual licensing would help Fedora.  I know you do not 
agree with him but let's just take this as Fedora's position.

So, dual licensing would make Fedora happy.  Why is it for you so important 
that you insist that there is no legal problem instead of dual licensing the 
code to make them happy?

We've even seen Microsoft release kernel code under the GPL to make the Linux 
kernel developers happy - and to achieve their goal of better interoperability 
and performance.

So, if your goal is to get as many as possible users for your great software, 
then I do not understand why you move away the roadblock that others have with 
it.  What hinders you?

Andreas
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