Re: Re: OpenSS7 GPL'd LiS.

Dan,

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Dan Gora wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

You wouldn't be able to do that Dan, you can't go from GPL to LGPL,
just the other way around.

However, you are welcome to release a  Linux Fast-STREAMS v0.73 under
GPL terms.

I released LiS-2.16.16-1 under GPL January 2004.  I have been doing this
for over a year now, so I don't know why your so upset now.  Perhaps
its because, while before there was GCOM's release, now there is none:
while before OpenSS7 project releases were just an alternative, now they
are the only alternative.

Why are you so up in arms about a competing release that is now the only
release?

--brian

> 
> 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
> 

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