Subject: Reconsidering the GPL licensing of Maxima
From: Andrey G. Grozin
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:28:48 +0700 (NOVST)
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrey" == Andrey G Grozin writes:
> Andrey> I only contributed small pieces to maxima, mainly to mactex.lisp. I did it
> Andrey> because this code is guaratneed to remain free forever by GPL. I don't
> Andrey> want MathSoft or whatever to use results of my work without paying me. It
> Andrey> you are going to change the license, please, insert back all the bugs in
> Andrey> mactex.lisp which I have fixed.
> Would you still feel this way if the license were LGPL or LLGPL? Only
> GPL is acceptable to you?
>
> I'm just curious. I understand if you don't want to have your code
> taken away from you.
Well, in this particular case I will not insist. The contributions are too
small. Perhaps, just a few days of work. So, if there will be a consensus
about switching to LGPL, so it be.
All code I wrote for (possible) distribution (not just for my personal
use) is licensed under GPL.
Andrey