On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin < > robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Andreas Kuckartz <a.kucka...@ping.de> >> wrote: >> > Am 02.06.2011 18:09, schrieb Jukka Zitting: >> >> I wouldn't be too quick to throw away this opportunity to reunite the >> > related communities. >> >> >> >> If the differences truly are insurmountable, I'd like to see that >> >> explained in the proposal before we vote on it. >> > >> > +1 (not binding) >> >> The ASF uses the Apache License. Some people will only contribute to >> projects under a copyleft license. Arguments about these lines have - >> historically - produce a lot of flames but little useful illumination. >> (So I'd like to avoid another round ;-) >> >> What might be reasonably hoped for is that the ASF could act as an >> upstream for GPLv3 office product(s) with a reunited community >> spanning these projects (as widely as ideologically possible). I would >> definitely like to see the proposal explain whether this would be >> possible and practical. >> > > More than that, I'd like to see it as an objective to facilitate this > collaboration. There's too much talk of just giving up and treating > ideological division as a given...
Mailing lists that end in '.apache.org' tend to attract people who prefer this license choice. Calling this choice 'ideological' doesn't further the discussion. Take it elsewhere. > S. - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
