On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 07:39:09PM -0200, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:
>> Em Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:05:53 -0700 (MST)
>> Jon Trulson<j...@radscan.com> escreveu:
>>> Now CDE is an open source project, but we would *really* like to avoid
>>> being forced into a specific license if at all possible - this is why
>>> we request MIT licensing.
>>
>> Here we have a problem. In the GNU project we are mainly concerned
>> with user's freedom.
As opposed to programmer's freedom. You seem to have appointed yourself
as Caudillo of the CDE project and you seem to be lecturing reluctant
subordinates about the greatness of your vision.
I believed the GNOME project (contrarily to KDE) fitted perfectly the
aims of the GNU organization by being based on the non-proprietary
toolkit GTK. Moreover, in order to improve the performance of GNOME,
the X Window System is being abandoned on Linux in favor of Wayland,
while at the same time GNOME is getting tightly integrated in the new
systemd replacement for System V init. These changes are going to make
CDE and Motif obsolete on the mainstream Linuxes in the coming years.
So why this urge to seize
control of a project by a small team of programmers that is likely
to be useful only for marginal Unix type operating systems: legacy
Unices, the BSDs, OpenIndiana, CRUX/Slackware Linux ?
Another strange thing is that your only technical proposition was
to replace the imake build systems with GNU Autotools, a proposition
that was already made 1 year ago, but not accepted. It seems as if
you were only looking for a plausible pretext to attempt to force your
views on the CDE programmers or create a split among them. You have
already used some innuendoes about the possible corruption of some of
the programmers with sentences such as " eventually and
deliberately letting some self-interested people or corporation take
away CDE's users freedom", " the bloated and awful Sourceforge web
interface and its commercial appeal" "[...]comercial advertising! How
can developers tolerate this behavior in every corner of their
development facilities?".
I am only a user, but I am extremely uncomfortable with someone like
you being the self-appointed guardian of my liberty.
Besides, "forks" of open source programs
based purely on pseudo-legal argument have already resulted in technical
disasters. A remarkable example is with cdrecord/wodim
https://web.archive.org/web/20140223032844/http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
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