[gmpi] Re: licensing
- From: "Ron Kuper" <ronkuper@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:43:00 -0500
Please don't open any public source code repository yet until we hear back
from the MMA.
Has anyone who said they would be interested in MMA membership, actually
joined yet?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: licensing
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:51:06AM -0700, Mike Berry wrote:
> > It seems to me that the API and the SDK should not necessarily be
> > under the same license. We don't want anyone modifying the API, because
> > that *IS* GMPI and is what determines compatibility. The SDK, on the
other
> > hand, should be open to modification. Why would we care? As long as it
> > is using the same API, compatibility is guaranteed.
>
> Remember that the "API" files will be included in a project. By doing
> so, the license has to allow that.
>
> I think that the implementation of the API (headers) should be loosely
> licensed, but the API definition is tightly controlled (MMA).
>
> The reason I brought this up is so that we can open a public project
> with all this code we've been bouncing about.
>
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