On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 07:29:23PM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
But anyway, I just wanted a confirmation, that you are ok with this.
_I_ am OK with this. Let's see what other developers and contributors think.
That said, I don't think BSD one is a good choice (it will certainly distract some potential contributors), but that's a matter of my personal preferences.
It will distract some but bring some other ones. For example if you look into the sympy mailinglist, you will see that some people find ginac to restrictive, that it's GPL.
GPL forbids one to take away the freedom. Some people happen to dislike that, but I like this "restriction" *very* much.
On the other hand, I also don't like, that Mathematica, a non-free program, is using GMP, while giving nothing back.
So release your code under a (more) restrictive license. :)
we decided to use BSD, because it's more free ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Could you please refrain from claims like this? Pretty *please*.
Sorry about that, I should have written:
we decided to use BSD, because we arrived at a consenus, that BSD is more free (but other people may think otherwise).
Is that ok? :)
Almost, although "we decied to use BSD" would be even better, as it's more informative and does not provoke yet another "BSD versus GPL" flamewar :) Best regards, Alexei -- All science is either physics or stamp collecting.