Hello Joerg, On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:09:10 +0200 Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > > > So if you want your software to be used by the majority of Linux > > distros without license-related hiccups, you can always just re-license > > it to GPL and everyone will be happy. > > You seem to be missinformed: When cdrtools have been 100% GPL, it was attacked > by Debian _because_ it was 100% GPL and because the GPL is a frequently > missinterpreted license. > > ...so I decided to choose a less problematic license than the GPL. > > > software as you see fit, they equally have the right to not like your > > license and to boycott your software because of it. > > Democracy is that the doers and this are software authors decide about the > license. Distros are just users of the software and have to accept the license > and as long as the license is doubtless OSS compliant, I see no reason why a > distro should complain. Exactly! Agree or disagree, but act consequently (and obey to licenses/laws or..). Thanks a bunch for the software you brought to us sinces years, Jörg. Regards, -- wwp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130821/6b9eb58c/attachment-0005.sig>