Hello:<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1503940725093">I fear most viable way to keep te language alive is to GPL it . Soon we wont have the resortes to keep alive. Im not understimating anyone here. But IMHO is de time to do it. </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1503940979214">Thanks in advance<br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1503940817828">Enviado desde Yahoo Mail para Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <header style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>El lun, 28 de ago de 2017 a la(s) 0:12, Jay K</div><div><jayk123@hotmail.com> escribió:</div> </header> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv8592101781">
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<div style="direction:ltr;">So, I think </div>
<div style="direction:ltr;">1. Modula-3 maybe matters less these days?</div>
<div style="direction:ltr;">2. It is the code owners that would have to object, right?</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 27, 2017 10:06:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jay K<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Hendrik Boom; m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [M3devel] On the way to release other packages in GPL?</font>
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<div class="yiv8592101781">On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:18 AM, Jay K <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jayk123@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jayk123@hotmail.com" class="yiv8592101781">jayk123@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv8592101781" style="direction:ltr;">Please no GPL.</div>
<div class="yiv8592101781" style="direction:ltr;">I want it all BSD, and one license for it all. Including the m3cg.h or such that I wrote that is currently GPL. I'll send mail on it later. Dual license might be required. This file in particular is C preprocessor code that
helps read our IR. I'd also like to BSD parse.c but not clear we can. Try & see if anyone objects? Surely nobody will.</div>
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<div>RMS himself hit the roof when the original M3CG front-end to gcc was done, as he saw it as a threat to GPL. So, I wouldn’t count on that.</div>
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<div id="yiv8592101781x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class="yiv8592101781"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class="yiv8592101781" style="font-size:11pt;"><b class="yiv8592101781">From:</b><span class="yiv8592101781Apple-converted-space"> </span>M3devel <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:m3devel-bounces@elegosoft.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:m3devel-bounces@elegosoft.com" class="yiv8592101781">m3devel-bounces@elegosoft.com</a>>
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<b class="yiv8592101781">Sent:</b><span class="yiv8592101781Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, August 27, 2017 4:40:46 PM<br class="yiv8592101781">
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<b class="yiv8592101781">Subject:</b><span class="yiv8592101781Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [M3devel] On the way to release other packages in GPL?</font>
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<div class="yiv8592101781PlainText">On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 07:29:18PM +0000, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. wrote:<br class="yiv8592101781">
> Hello:what if we ask to release all Modula-3 in GPL?<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.dwheeler.com/misc/simplify-hp-release.txt" class="yiv8592101781">https://www.dwheeler.com/misc/simplify-hp-release.txt</a><br class="yiv8592101781">
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