Re: Re: OpenSS7 GPL'd LiS.

I agree. Brian, it is you who is forking the code base and changing
the licensing terms to be GPL.  This is unacceptable for what I would
guess is at least half of the LiS users out there.  Therefore I think
that you should change the name of your branch, since it will no
longer have anything to do with the previous LiS branch by virtue of
the new licensing arrangements.

When I release the next release of LiS has nothing to do with
anything.  Just because you are putting something out there first
doesn't automatically give you the right to confuse everyone by
calling your different branch by the same name.  You wouldn't like it
very much if I put out a LGPL product called Linux Fast-STREAMS v0.73
that modified and broke what you did.

I have no idea why you want to change the licensing terms for your
branch, but all you are doing is sowing confusion for all of the LiS
community and none of us needs that right now...

BTW, Ragnar, the latest, stable, LGPL version of LiS is 2.18.0, which
is still availible from ftp.gcom.com.

-dan

--- Ragnar Paulson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> It seems clear that Brian is creating a new software package now
> that should have a different name.  Version number itself will get
> incredibly confusing should LiS  (latest stable version 2.16?)
> continue to be modified while Brian continues to publish and modify
> his LiS under the same name but different license.
> 
> The Software Group will not use a GPL STREAMs environment.  I
> suspect we are going to see a major splintering of LiS now.  
> 
> Ragnar Paulson
> The Software Group Limited
>   
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Grothe" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Cc: "linuxstreams" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Linux-streams] Re: OpenSS7 GPL'd LiS.
> 
> 
> I agree that a name change is in order.  "BLiS" ?  "LiSS7" ?
> -- Dave
> 
> At 02:02 PM 4/12/2005, Dan Gora wrote:
> 
> 
> >May I respectfully suggest that you call it something other than
> LiS
> >2.18.1 since you are changing the licencing terms and forking your
> >own branch here.  We are still going to maintain LiS in it's LGPL
> >state and will not use any of your changes if you are going to
> insist
> >on making it GPL.
> >
> >-dan
> >
> >--- "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Dave,
> > >
> > > In the absence of other releases it is the only version.
> > >
> > > --brian
> > >
> > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Dave Grothe wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >    OK, well now you have a forked version.
> > > >    -- Dave
> > >
> > > --
> > > Brian F. G. Bidulock    ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to
> the
> > > ¦
> > > [email protected]    ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists
> in
> > > ¦
> > > http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying  to adapt the  world  to
> himself.
> > > ¦
> > >                         ¦ Therefore  all  progress  depends on
> the
> > > ¦
> > >                         ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard
> Shaw
> > > ¦
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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