Re: New project of text editor that follows jEdit

What is wrong with GPL2? This is the same license used for Linux, which has
been quite successful. The main reason I see that people use MIT or more
permissive licenses is that they want to use the software in commercial
applications without having to give back to the open source community.

Plugins are not required to use the GPL licenses. Many plugins in fact use
the MIT license, some are BSD, some are LGPL, some are WTFPL, some use
Apache licenses, some code is public domain. The GPL does not prohibit the
mixing of licenses this way.

It's not clear to me how either the licensing or the hosting are preventing
you from doing something very good?

Dale




On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:40 AM ナンダカフラリ <[email protected]> wrote:

> (This sentence is translated from Japanese to English using Google
> Translate)
>
> Hi jEdit users and developers.
> The other day, I posted an opinion about the transition to GitHub.
> Thank you so much for your feedback.
>
> And this time I make a very bold proposal.
> Still, I would like you to read it to the end.
>
> First of all, I think about this project, there are some problems.
> However, please keep in mind that it is only an impression that I saw from
> my eyes.
>
> * Java is very evolved now and many projects have code written with it,
> but jEdit has a lot of old code
> * At the moment the project's VCS is mostly used Git, but jEdit is
> Suvbersion
> * Currently, the project's Code Hosting Service is mostly used GitHub, but
> jEdit is a source forge
>
> And so on.
> But these are probably minor issues.
> The biggest problem in my eyes is
>
> * There are many great OSS licenses such as MIT License now, but jEdit is
> GPLv2
>
> I searched past mailing lists. Therefore, it is interpreted that the
> plug-in is also forced to be GPL.
> Nowadays many codes are often written under non-GPL licenses.
> Projects under the GPL are hated by many programmers.
> If the jEdit community launches a new text editor project that follows
> jEdit, for example under the MIT License:
> I expect to be able to do something very good.
>
> What do you think.
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