On 01/09/16 16:34, Rémi Verschelde wrote: > Hi Tobias, hi *, > > You might have heard of it already, but Aseprite's main developer and > sole copyright holder (thanks to his CLA) relicensed Aseprite from > GPLv2 to proprietary (custom EULA with strong freedom restrictions) > [0]. That's fairly unfortunate. > This has no direct impact on the Debian packaging as the currently > packaged version obviously stays open source. Still, there are a few > points I thought worth of mentioning here: > > * Open source fork: When we heard about this yesterday, we decided > with some contributors from the Godot Engine community to create a > fork of the repo as of the last GPLv2 commit [1]. > > I don't have a precise plan yet for this repo, but wanted to secure > the code and give interested users a place to discuss a potential open > source community version of Aseprite. See (and partake in) the > discussion [2]. Forks should not be done lightly, and if we manage to > convince the original author to go back to the GPLv2, I'll gladly > remove this fork. > > * Reasons for the license change: It's not fully clear yet why the > Aseprite developer decided to drop the GPLv2, but based on this > Twitter discussion we had [3] he seems to be pretty unhappy (not to > use stronger qualificatives) about distro packaging, in particular > Debian's. I think I regret clicking on the link to that twitter discussion. Some of the things said weren't nice. Given that the upstream developer is so hostile to having Aseprite packaged in Debian, I think using the GPL fork is the only acceptable way forward (besides removing the package). Hopefully it gets some developers to contribute to it - it looks like David did the vast majority of the development on the original project. Another link David just posted: http://dev.aseprite.org/post/149797781837/new-source-code-license James > Those are pretty bad reasons IMO, and it shows that he has a biased > understanding of the free software ecosystem as a whole, but that's > still something you might want to be aware of. > > There are also ongoing discussions about the change on the commit's > comment GH frontend [4]. > > Regards, > Rémi / Akien > > [0] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/commit/5ecc356a41c8e29977f8608d8826489d24f5fa6c > [1] https://github.com/aseprite-gpl/aseprite > [2] https://github.com/aseprite-gpl/aseprite/issues/1 > [3] https://twitter.com/davidcapello/status/769201407752798208 > [4] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/commit/5ecc356a41c8e29977f8608d8826489d24f5fa6c#commitcomment-18851029
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