Re: ZPL and GPL licensing issues
Dear Digital Creations, Thank you for providing Zope. Please consider releasing it under the GPL. As a non-profit organization that is recruiting and training volunteers to develop code for our web site that runs on Zope, the license uncertainty is wasting our time and may force us to abandon Zope as a core element of our technology platform. Zope takes advantage of a body of work and a community of people made possible by the pioneering efforts of the Free Software Foundation, source of the General Public License (GPL). Now that Python itself is being distributed under a GPL-compatible license, you could save everyone a lot of time and grief by clarifying your business model and the relationship you would like to have with your development community. Offering developers the choice to obtain Zope under the GPL would send a clear message that you value us. I would love to discuss the issues in detail with you or your legal counsel by e-mail in a public forum. Perhaps a zope-license mailing list would be useful to all concerned. Sincerely, Fred Wilson Horch, JD Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley '95 Development Editor, High Technology Law Journal '94 - '95 -- Fred Wilson Horch mailto:fhorch@ecoaccess.org Executive Director, EcoAccess http://ecoaccess.org/ P.O. Box 2823, Durham, NC 27715-2823 phone: 919.419-8567
Now you're talking. Seconded.
[Simon Michael] | Now you're talking. Seconded. Me too! And if the management team really needs alot of serious breakdowns as to why this is a problem (GPL-incompatability, that is) let me know and I'll drum up a nice little mail of my own. :)
On Saturday 23 June 2001 11:20, Erik Enge wrote:
[Simon Michael]
| Now you're talking. Seconded.
Me too!
i'd very much like to see a GPL compatible zope license as well, both for products i create and to integrate with third party gpl products. would a petition be useful? kapil
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:49:40PM -0700, ender wrote:
On Saturday 23 June 2001 11:20, Erik Enge wrote:
[Simon Michael]
| Now you're talking. Seconded.
Me too!
i'd very much like to see a GPL compatible zope license as well, both for products i create and to integrate with third party gpl products.
would a petition be useful?
As much as I would appreciate it if DC was able (from an economic viewpoint, this it) to release Zope under the GPL, I think that it's much more important that they release Zope under a GPL compatible license (which is definitely a very different thing). If this is what you meant, I agree with all of you ;-) Gregor
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