[TIP] Result protocol

[Jesse Noller]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 12:55 +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> In fact I'm not sure that as a 'collection of facts' a protocol itself
>>> would even be licensable in the first place.
>>>
>>> FWIW the GPL license on subunit would also stop me using, re-using or
>>> contributing to it.
>>>
>>
>> This is only slightly useful to know - what would be much more useful
>> is:
>>  - what characteristics do you need changed in the licence to let you
>> use/reuse subunit
>>
>
> Because of the viral nature of GPL it is impossible to use it in [many]
> commercial situations.
>
> I don't like the license and don't wish to put this restriction on code I
> release - this means I can't include GPL licensed code (LGPL is fine) in my
> projects. The BSD, MIT, Apache and MS-PL are all perfectly decent
> alternative licenses.
>
>>  - what [other] characteristics do you need changed to be willing to
>> contribute to it
>>
>
> I'm interested in protocols for test result reporting - which sounds like
> part of what subunit does. It is not something I currently have bandwidth to
> contribute to, I'm still working through my backlog now that my book is
> complete. Improving unittest itself is something I am dedicating time to.
> FWIW the GPL license means that code from subunit can't be reused in
> unittest should any of it prove relevant.
>
>> The GPL is my default licence, I use it until-and-unless there are
>> reasons to use a different licence. It doesn't mean I'm unwilling to
>> change.
>>
>
> If you accept any contributions back to your code after original licensing
> you no longer own the copyright on the whole work - and need the permission
> of all contributors to relicense. This is why I tend to choose a more
> permissive default license. (BSD has been my choice but I'm considering
> switching to Apache because it explicitly handles the licensing of
> contributions.)
>
> Michael
>
>> -Rob
>>
>
>
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Simply, +1 to what michael said, since he obviously wasn't replying
from his phone at the time and said it better ;)

jesse