On 02/06/2011 11:17 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 06/02/2011 09:45, Dave Plater a écrit :
The problem is that openSUSE have strict rules for the license field
I didn't even know about licence.opensuse.org :-(, it's a great page for our use.
which have to be adhered to for packages in the main distribution and unsuspecting budding packagers may run up against them by putting the wrong information in the license field after using the spec file as an example.
do you have a wiki page (or any other widely accessable page explaining that?)
I thought you were busy with the license one, I have a nomail account for davejplater@gmail.com and can fallback on webafrica.org.za when gmail's smtp fails like this morning. The only contributing to wiki pages I have time for is adding missing information and being fluent in english in many different languages :-) (My late wife was french, I've worked with germans before and I had a lot of greek, portugese indian and various arab flavour customers ) I sometimes make the statements clearer. My contribution to openSUSE is getting gray hair from worrying too much about packages.
reducing the amount of licence is a goal everybody should share :-) even if it's not to be reached anytime soon :-(
except for the WTFPL which is for developers who are sick of all this licensing *@#&%, are either throwbacks from the past or attempts to have one foot in the commercial world and one foot in opensource.
we don't have to underestimate the licence problem. Licence is what makes the free software/open source world free, if not, do you think the multibillion cash vailable on MS side wont have cut our work down?
However, making opensource software for a living is pretty difficult so we have to understand all the ways any of us uses to try to achieve this.
The work on licences is only done for that.
That's what the GPL is for, backed by an organisation that is populated by people that believe in a common cause and (well they should be dethroned if they do) not in it for ego or financial gain. I used to run an entity called the "harbour music club" for the encouragement and furthering of young up and coming musicians. I stepped in when the founder ( a well respected marine biologist and a musician) was no longer able to keep going and I used to print posters send emails to + 180 people and organise schedules etc. by myself and out of my own pocket in my days of wealth. This is what I expect of an organization such as the FSF.
jdd
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