On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:48:47 +0200 Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote: [...] > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Francesco Poli > <invernomuto@paranoici.org> wrote: > > I am sorry to say this, but I think that the time of a competent > > developer would be far better spent in writing Free Software, rather > > than in building "proxies" having the sole purpose of making it easier > > to use proprietary software... :-( > > I understand your point. Let me elaborate about this: [...] Point taken, thanks for the explanation, I now understand your goal better (even though I must admit that I am not 100 % sure that it's the best possible strategy...). > > > It could *maybe* qualify for the contrib archive [2], as long as it is > > determined to be (legally redistributable and) > > Who would determine whether it is legally redistributable? The ultimate decision on what will or will not be distributed by Debian is up to the FTP Masters (possibly after consultation with other bodies, including the Debian-legal mailing list). > > > (even though I see that it is licensed under the terms of the EPL, a > > license that I personally dislike...). > > The EPL is the license recommended by coin-or [2] where I intend to > submit my project. I would be happy to relicense my work differently > as long as the new license is approved by the open source initiative > (coin-or requirement) and as it makes it possible to link Osi with it. > > [1]: http://scip.zib.de/ > [2]: http://www.coin-or.org/contributions.html I would personally recommend a simpler license, such as the Expat license: http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt also known as the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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