Re: GNUstep Licensing.... GPLv2.1+ for apps instead of GPLv3

[Alessandro Sangiuliano]

Il giorno 04/giu/2014, alle ore 09:11, Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> ha scritto:

Would these companies and/or contributors be more inclined to contribute to the project if portions of it were GPLv2 over GPLv3? 

Yes because there is apparently a no gplv3 policy in some conpanys due to gplv3 patent restrictions. 

Do they have a history our contributing to projects under GPLv2 over v3? Have these contributors submitted any patches to GPL projects?

Yes.  

The reason I all these questions is because I do not see why a company or contributor would be so fervently again the GPLv3 but not v2.  

See again regarding patent restrictions in gplv3 

If it is am entity that has goaltending contributed to an educational license, such as BSD or MIT, be more inclined to contribute to a project licensed in such a manner? If so, relicensing to GPLv2 gains us nothing as the licensing objections would be still be present.

Gplv3 seems also to be hated by many developers including many of our own. 

+1

This particular decision does not affect me any as my major contribution, CoreBase, is already LGPLv2.1.

Over the decade that I've been involved with this project, beginning as a user and now as a contributor, I've read arguments about how a trivial solution, such as this one, would increase contribution. 

No one is saying any one thing is a panacea.There are a myriad of issues with gnustep only one of which is licensing. 

Also, I disagree that licensing is minor. Licensing affects how the software can be used.  So I would say it's very important. 

Other issues with gnustep are that there are many fundamental things which currently don't work properly.  Printing being one of them.  Our default look is unattractive, outdated and generally gives a poor impression, we do not do a good job of inviting change and encouraging contribution. We do not promote ourselves very well.  The list continues.

For the look, I asked help in the past with the rick theme, because me and Riccardo got busy, the theme is at a good point, I use it every days, it needs some minor fixes, tabs implementation.

I asked help, saying that the code is on github, fork it and help please!

Gregory helped me a lot with advices in that period on the etoile IRC, but as I said then I got busy, I had to work too.

I link again:

https://github.com/AlessandroSangiuliano/rik.theme

There’s also an experimental dbuskit integration.

Thanks  

Stefan

GC  

If my opinion could count something, I think gnustep needs:

1) Better quality code, I would propose a debugged release where features implementation is frozen, focusing just on bugs fixing.

2) A modern look & feel, without cutting out the old theme for NextStep lovers; just give to people the possibility to choice.

3) Marketing. I mean: video, tutorials and so on to advertise gnustep attracting developers. 

Alex.

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