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From: "Andrés Martinelli" <andmarti@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] terminal spreadsheet - sc fork
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:24:49
Message-Id: CABSTndbSC8LAfi2vAGJCof2wm30n7ofOO9jA2gOUzC4i5t3y0Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] terminal spreadsheet - sc fork by Matthias Maier
1 Hello there. Thanks for your time and taking a look at the app.
2
3 About the license, my idea was to start scim with its own license, and keep
4 it as simple as could be, but keeping in line with the points mentioned in
5 it.
6 I believe it will always suit best something particular and written for it,
7 than something more general, but take in mind that this license can suffer
8 modifications since this project is just starting! Since SCIM can be
9 modified and redistributed with other license, such as any other GPL
10 compatible, I believe is not as restrictive as it seems.
11 Please, I am interested in hearing what points you dislike or consider are
12 restrictive.
13 Thanks!
14
15 2014-11-03 9:01 GMT-03:00 Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o>:
16
17 >
18 > Am 03. Nov 2014, 00:24 schrieb Andrés Martinelli <andmarti@×××××.com>:
19 >
20 > > I am working on a terminal spreadsheet based on "sc", but with some
21 > > adds like undo/redo..
22 > > you can find it here:
23 > >
24 > > https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim
25 > >
26 > > Any new ideas and/or contribution is always welcome!
27 >
28 > Just out of curiosity.
29 >
30 > The original sc program is public domain [1].
31 >
32 > You have chosen to relicense your fork of the codebase under a custom
33 > license that you labeled "SCIM license".
34 >
35 > A quick peek at the license [2] reveals quite a cumbersome number of
36 > issues (forced contact, contact possibility, redistribution in form of
37 > tarballs and patches). Such a license usually prevents any meaningful
38 > number of external contributions and packaging. Not to mention that
39 > layman's licenses are almost always fundamentally flawed.
40 >
41 > Why not using an FSF-approved, OSI-approved, and/or DFSG compatible
42 > license instead? I'm sure that there is something available that fits
43 > your taste. (You can e.g. license under "GPL 2 or later" and ask for a
44 > special (non binding) courtesy to inform you of changes/patches.)
45 >
46 > Best,
47 > Matthias
48 >
49 > [1]
50 > http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sc/sc_7.16-3_copyright
51 > [2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim/blob/master/LICENSE
52 >
53 >
54
55
56 --
57 Andrés Martinelli

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