Re: libjingle license change? - Arc Riley - com.googlegroups.google-talk-open

7 messages in com.googlegroups.google-talk-openRe: libjingle license change?

From	Sent On	Attachments
Arc Riley (PySoy Dev)	09 May 2008 13:23
Peter Saint-Andre	09 May 2008 13:28
Arc Riley	09 May 2008 13:39
Paul Johnson	09 May 2008 14:26
Arc Riley	09 May 2008 14:46
Peter Saint-Andre	09 May 2008 14:46
suka...@gmail.com	10 May 2008 09:22

Subject:	Re: libjingle license change?
From:	Arc Riley (arcr...@gmail.com)
Date:	05/09/2008 01:39:47 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-talk-open

http://code.google.com/p/libjingle/issues/detail?id=23

On a more pragmatic level, many people are uncomfortable contributing to projects not licensed under the GPL for the sake that their contributions could be used in a non-reciprocal manner.

I'm not against a Jingle reference library or SDK to popularize the extensions, but speaking for myself, I'm not going to help with bugs or optimization when people can just leech my contributions for software I consider unethical.

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpe...@stpeter.im> wrote:

On 05/09/2008 2:23 PM, Arc Riley (PySoy Dev) wrote:

The recent license change to gplv2

Was any particular reason given for the change? The old BSD-style license was awfully developer-friendly, especially for a library (IMHO using straight GPL makes it harder to build applications on top of the library).