Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:09:17 +0800 (WST) From: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au> To: shigio@tamacom.com (Shigio Yamaguchi) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL Message-ID: <199909181409.WAA22184@laurasia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199909181348.WAA02472@tamacom.com> from Shigio Yamaguchi at "Sep 18, 1999 10:48:19 pm"
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Hi Shigio, As the owner/author of a piece of software, you can distribute the source code under any license that you like (GNU/BSD/Artistic etc...). Indeed, there is no reason to choose just a single license under which you distribute your code -- it should be possible for you to distribute the code under *both* the GPL and the BSD licenses. E.g. you could distribute a BSD version of GLOBAL-3.53 at the same time that you distribute a GNU License version of GLOBAL-3.53. If you want to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation (so that global becomes gnu-global?), I think you will lose the right to distribute later versions under the BSD license. Whether this is what you want or not is only for you to decide! Best of Luck, Mike Kennett. Usual Disclaimer: I'm not a legal expert, and the above represents my opinion only. Potential Flamebait (:-)) [[Feel free to ignore this comment]] Does the license really matter? Surely the important consideration is quality of the code? > I'm the author of GLOBAL source code tag system. > > I have decided to release next version of GLOBAL as a GNU software. > It means that it will be released under GPL instead of BSD license. > > This decision was made by practical reason, not by doctrine reason. > It is advantageous for GLOBAL, because > > o GNU softwares are distributed to widespread environments. > o The developers of GNU software pay some attention to making the program > work well with the rest of GNU software. > > That makes it easy for GLOBAL to reach the goal, that is, becoming > a common source code tag system in various environments. > > Since FreeBSD already includes GNU softwares, it seems no problem. > GLOBAL itself will be as it be. > > I'm concerned about whether or not FreeBSD community accept GNU GLOBAL. > I hope you not to reject it, because the rejection splits GLOBAL and it > makes it hard for GLOBAL to be a common source code tag system. > > By the way, I have released GLOBAL-3.53 today. <http://www.tamacom.com/unix/>; > It supports C++, XEmacs and WIN32 and includes improved gtags.el. > (Of course, it's BSD licensed). > > Thank you. > -- > Shigio Yamaguchi - Tama Communications Corporation > Mail: shigio@tamacom.com, WWW: http://www.tamacom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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