Subject: Re: ability to not to use gnome print under gnome build
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 09:51:01 CST
I haven't tried following this discussion enough to fully understand
it. Also, I haven't downloaded AbiWord 0.7.12, else I might know the
answser.
I hope (?) we won't need Gnome print on Windows.
I hope the inclusion of Gnome print won't preclude me from running
AbiWord from the KDE desktop. (I'm a Linux newbie. So far I prefer KDE
1.2 to Gnome. I'm planning to install KDE 2.0 very soon.)
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
Sam TH wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:32:55PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> > > 1) gnome-print doesn't require copyright assignment, so if you
> > > contributed to it, no one could license it under any other license
> > > without your approval. So you don't have to worry.
> >
> > That's very nice. The problem is - if I just fix a pile of bugs, I can't hold
> > copyright for bugfixes/fixed code. I have to write any module myself to claim
> > copyright on it. That's a bad thing about bugfixing.
>
> Well, the FSF standard is that copyright assignment is required for
> more than about 10 lines of code. Beyond that, you have copyright to
> the code you contribute, and people attempting to use it under a
> different license would have to get you permission.
>
> >
> > > 2) There is ZERO possibility of GNOME doing anything like this. The
> > > GNOME libraries that are GPL are that way so that proprietary code
> > > can't use them, not to make money. If someone tried this, all of
> > > GNOME would revolt.
> >
> > First, all members of gnome foundation can link to GPLed gnome libraries. The
> > membership costs $10K/year currently. Granted, it's rather cheap currently..
>
> First, this is untrue. If it were true, I would resign from the
> foundation, and I suspect Dom and Martin and Joaquin would also, as
> would important people like Havoc. Your ten grand buys you some
> influence with the Foundation board. (And not too much, at that.) It
> does not buy you any code.
>
> > Second, one rather crucial gnome library is GPLed only in order to raise
> > money. The library's author told me that privately. That's very disappointing,
> > so I'm very careful about improving GPLed libraries now.
> >
>
> I'm sad if this is true, however I find it unlikely. Almost everyone
> in the project is committed to free software.
>
> For a better perspective on making libraries GPL, see the essay at
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
>
>
> sam th
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