On Feb 01, 11 18:06:53 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Juergen Weigert <jw@suse.de> wrote:
Why do dou restart a discussion that has already been resolved in September 2009?
Sorry, I had no intend to annoy you. Most of this was a private conversation at that time, I simply wanted to say 'me too' when Stephan Kleine mentioned dual.
There is no need to make the code dual licensed as the current situation is perfectly legal. Making the code dual licensed would however result in problems that could be avoided.
I am not talking legal. I'd like you to acknowledge that we have an issue with public perception and uncertainty. People shun your code for that reason.
Even the FSF tells averybody that there is no problem with linking GPLd software against CDDL libraries
No, they see the problem.
Please try to be reasonable and do not believe unproven claimes from laymen.
This is no anonymous layman. This is a quote from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html "This means a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the CDDL for this reason."
Also check: http://www.osscc.net/en/licenses.html#compatibility
Please use references that do not point to yourself. That could be misunderstood as cheating.
Suse earns money with my software, so if there still is any doubt, Suse could do the same as Sun and Oracle did: pay a specialized lawyer for a review.
Guess what we did. If you want to make people link your code with GPL code, please explicitly say so in your license. Otherwise people will read the FSF websites and fear incompatibility.
If you still insist in claiming to see a problem, I get the impression that there is FUD against my project.
I apologize for stirring this old FUD. I don't think I created it. I believe I just made another futile attempt to address it.
I fail to see how a license could protect against being badmouthed. Not a license could protect but reasonably acting people.
We have a _social_ problem that has been introduced by a person acting hostile against OSS and that is a laymen in law. You need to understand that you have been a victim ov attacks od that person.
I am unsure who exactly you are referring to. Please don't say its Stallman. cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 __/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) SuSE. Supporting Linux since 1992. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org