[M3devel] On the way to release other packages in GPL?

[Jay K]

So, I think
1. Modula-3 maybe matters less these days?
2. It is the code owners that would have to object, right?

- Jay
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From: Hosking, Antony L <hosking at purdue.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2017 10:06:46 PM
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Cc: Hendrik Boom; m3devel at elegosoft.com
Subject: Re: [M3devel] On the way to release other packages in GPL?


On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:18 AM, Jay K <jayk123 at hotmail.com<mailto:jayk123 at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Please no GPL.
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.

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.


- Jay
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From: M3devel <m3devel-bounces at elegosoft.com<mailto:m3devel-bounces at elegosoft.com>> on behalf of Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com<mailto:hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2017 4:40:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [M3devel] On the way to release other packages in GPL?

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 07:29:18PM +0000, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. wrote:
> Hello:what if we ask to release all Modula-3 in GPL?https://www.dwheeler.com/misc/simplify-hp-release.txt
> Thanks in advance

You can release every package *you*write using the GPL.

But you'll have licence compatibility issues because the majority of
Modula 3 code is not covered by the GPL unless you also release it
under a license compatible with the one that most of the Modula 3
stuff is licenced under.

There's nothing difficult about having two licences.  It just means
there are two possible conditions under which someone can use and copy
them.  Its enough for either to apply, and it gets out of bothersome
licence compatbility restrictions.

-- hendrik
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