On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Amr Aboelela <
amraboelela@gmail.com> wrote:
> So you are saying that GPL means any software built on the GPL frameworks
> has also to be GPL?
>
> is that the problem?
>
> but they said GPL means free as in freedom!
>
> i started a project called caramel
>
>
https://github.com/amraboelela/caramel
>
> what do u think about it?
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:37 AM, BigZaphod
> <
reply+m-9201204-9f9752af99cee8fb7c10d727d7ffaff622000caa@reply.github.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> An open source Core Animation would be pretty amazing, and with that and
>> the other frameworks, Chameleon should be able to run! That'd be pretty
>> impressive!
>>
>> Chameleon is all under a BSD license which is far more permissive than
>> GPL, and that's the way I like it. I personally dislike the GPL and find it
>> too restrictive. I understand the goals, but I don't agree it's necessary to
>> strong-arm people into sharing. Chameleon has now had several contributions
>> from a number of others and I suspect they would also all have to agree to
>> dual license their contributions. While not an insurmountable problem, I
>> have no interest in doing it.
>>
>> It should be possible to use Chameleon to test their Core Animation layer
>> and software could even be built using the whole open source stack once it's
>> complete, but no, I don't want to add any additional restrictions to my
>> code.
>>
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