Re: dual licensing try 2

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:37:31AM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
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>> --- Attila Kinali <[email protected]> escreveu: 
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>>>Poll 1:
>>>So, we have 2 options:
>>>1) Leave MPlayer GPL
>>>2) Make MPlayer GPL/LGPL 
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>>I vote for 1.
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>In case it wasn't already obvious, I vote for 1 as well.
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>Rich
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Sorry, that I dare to butt in to this important discussion, but to me it
seemes that the real problem is about the money that could be donated
(in option 2) and how it should be handled.

If you don't know how to divide it w/o loosing developers or the whole
project because of a fork then why don't you request patches instead of
money? And if someone HAS to donate money.. Why not forget about the
whole "I earn money with MPlayer" thing and pass all the cash to a
charity or http://www.eff.org (or a similar european org.) instead? You
could even save the rainforest...

However, let me (again) point the OBVIOUS thing out... Money is a
serious threat to everything where you expect people to contribute for
free (even if they're your friends)..

Dirk