Bill Andersson wrote:
Be that as it may, it still does not constitute a flame-war.
True. We are not having a flamewar. Yet. However, as I am sure you yourself have experienced, licensing issues/discussions in Open Source contexts require no more than a few heated mails to degenerate into a Flame War. Surely you have been around long enough to see this happen (in fact you were around this list's latest big hoopla about the GPL in September of last year. 44 mails about "Zope and the GPL poison pill" in 3 days, 11 various follow ups). Allready this thread has generated 16 mails so far, not including this one.
Imagine the consequences of having the spooky ghost of the License Horse roaming about... *BRRRR*
Or worse, the fear of saying something in disagreement, for fear of being labelled a flame war starter.
Well, I disagree ;^), the issue here is not really whether it is allowed or not to disagree. Of course it is allowed to disagree (which is exactly what I am doing now), and disagreement is good: it makes you think about your opinions one time more. License issues (or wars) are just not on the topic of this list. And neither is this post, so I'll stop right now :-) /dario btw: humour was intended in my last post, even if not obvious. sorry about that.