Re: Re: Pragmatic License Vote

Hi.
With Eric gone from the core team, will this be much
of a "vote"??? 
--- Eric Merritt <cyberlync-/[email protected]> wrote:
> Ed Wilson - Project Admin 
> Aryeh Friedman - Language Architect, Coder 
> Eric Merritt - Language Architect, Coder 
>  
> We expect this to open up to more people soon, but
> there are a few items on our 
> task list that are ahead of a call for volunteers.
> Like finding hosting space, which is 
> taking longer then we expected. 
>  
>  The main reason we postponed the license vote is
> that we are trying to get some 
> clarification on licensing issues from some of the
> organizations that developed 
> these licenses. Our main goal is to make Pragmatic
> as free as and as open 
> source as possible. We want to encourage both OS and
> commercial work. Finding 
> a license that allows this in a realistic way is
> difficult. In a few cases the licenses 
> that cover both cases well are incompatable with the
> GPL. For a language this is a 
> bad thing becuase then those developers that wish to
> create GPLed works in 
> Pragmatic would not be able to use any of the
> Pragmatic libs. Obviously we want 
> to encourage use is as many areas and under as many
> licenses as possible. 
>  
>  I never realized how complex this whole licensing
> issue was until I started being 
> involved in the debate.  
>  
>  In any case, we will get it worked out as quickly
> as we can. 
>  
> --- In [email protected], Jim Daloonik
> <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > Who is one the "core team" ? 
> > --- Edward Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > > The Pragmatic license vote has been canceled for
> 
> > > this week.  We will  
> > > open up the topic for thoughts and comments as
> soon 
> > > as we work out  
> > > our legal conflicts. 
> > >  
> > > Thank you everyone! 
> > >  
> > > -- 
> > > Core Pragmatic Team 
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> >  
> >  
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