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Subject: Re: [Graph2] nsUML license problem
From: Jason van Zyl <jason@zenplex.com>
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Date: 05 Feb 2003 13:55:53 -0500
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On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 12:32, Morgan Delagrange wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> If you follow the community list, it sounds like the
> board is coming down on libraries that distribute or
> link to LGPL software.  Unfortunately, graph2 is one
> of those libraries, by way of the nsUML license:
> 
>   http://nsuml.sourceforge.net
> 
> The choices seem to be:
> 
>   1) Convince nsUML to redistribute under a new
> license
>   2) Remove nsUML from graph
> 
> Does anyone want to volunteer for the first option? 
> If not, we're stuck with option number two.

Or I'll just move it to werken.com. This is just ridiculous. We can't
make everyone on the face of planet switch licenses over night. I _hate_
_hate_ _hate_ GPL licenses but no one has time to try to convert
everyone, and some won't, so what do we do? Negate a whole universe of
software already written. It's just so stupid.

> - Morgan
> 
> =====
> Morgan Delagrange
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> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons
> http://axion.tigris.org
> http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog
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jvz.

Jason van Zyl
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http://tambora.zenplex.org

In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational
and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it.
  
  -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society


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