[M3devel] addition of GPL stuff

[Darko Volaric]

What's the argument against placing contributions in the public domain?
Licences are tedious. Even short ones require reading and understanding
when you're using the code, and most people use many projects.

Renouncing copyright is simple, flexible and no-one can copyright the work.

Or am I missing some important legal wrinkle? Do contributors want to keep
control of their code?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 06:14:52AM +0000, Jay K wrote:
> > Um, sorry to bring up such annoying matters, but maybe we should not
> be licensingnew files as GPL, assuming they aren't derived from GPL files?
> > e.g. the LLVM m3makfiles and Makefiles?
> > Thank you, - Jay
>
> To resurrect a post from ages gone by.
>
> We should be licencing everything GPL, assuming it's original, and not
> already constrained by SRC's license.
>
> If another license is appropriate, use that too.  Make it dual licensed.
> Dual licencing works as possible: anyone gets to choose which of
> the licences they are going to use.  So if your use is allowed by *any*
> of the listed licenses, it's OK.
>
> It's a way to achieve greater compatibility than could be obtained by
> any one of those licenses.
>
> In particular, the copyright owner (initially the author) could grant
> rights under both the GPL and the SRC licenses, to assure copatibility
> with both.  THe LGPL might be better than GPL for freedom, and the MIT
> licence even better.
>
> Tht way, if ever a viable collection of Modula 3 code is licenced under
> GPL, that collection can be used with GPL code freely.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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