On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:48:20 +0100 (MET), palomar@sg.uji.es (Juan David Ibáñez Palomar) wrote:
it's illegal to distribute GPL code together with [ZPL] code
I dont see this as an issue for Zope (taken as a whole). There is no problem with other developers releasing GPL products for Zope, as long as they do not create a combined distribution of Zope+TheirProduct. Separate rpms is enough. I agree that GPL-compatability would be better for some of Zope's components which are useful outside of Zope (ZPublisher, ZODB, ZEO, etc) On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:09:40 -0600, Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@texoma.net> wrote:
The GPL would protect DC from predatory competitors. It would also allow for Zope's adoption in certain environments. I also believe some people would relicense their products to the GPL if it were Zope's native license.
If a future version of Zope was released under GPL, I (and I guess many others) would *need* to create a fork from the last non-GPL version. This is to nobodys benefit. Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com