Re: DataViews - Proposal - move to sourceforge!

From: Mike Kienenberger (mkienen..mail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2007 - 13:23:30 EDT

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    There's nothing stopping you from forking a branch of DataViews.

    However, you cannot change the license to LGPL.

    On 11/3/07, Demetrios Kyriakis <demetrios.kyriaki..ooglemail.com> wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > Since the Cayenne team is not very interested in DataViews, but many users
    > are, the most simple solution to me looks to move DataViews to a place where
    > users can contribute much easier.
    >
    > Because of it's "patch" based contribution restriction, and especially of
    > the long list of incompatible "licenses", I'm not sure if Apache.org is the
    > best place to get help from users with as few as possible "barriers".
    >
    > Also an important step would be to switch the license from Apache to LGPL.
    > It seems that the Apache license is not too GUI friendly: just looks how few
    > projects on Apache.org have GUI's and how many good GUI oriented libraries
    > or tools are LGPL.
    >
    > Any other ideas on what could be done to re-invigorate DataViews?
    >
    > Thank you,
    >
    > Demetrios.
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    > Sent from the Cayenne - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
    >
    >



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