do I perchance hear the sound of crickets chirping ... ?

Chris Cason wrote:
> Massimo has the idea that he won't contribute anything to POV because he
> feels we should be GPL'd or something similar ... of course, his attitude
> is only holding up such a transition. He has privately told me that he
> disagrees with our current licensing; you may also note he withdrew from
> assisting us in the private testing group some time back.
> 
> Massimo: how about you put your money where your mouth is? ... suppose we
> said to you "here is the 3.7 codebase; these are the parts that can be
> OSS'd, and these are the parts that have to be cut out and re-written. Make
> a 4.0 framework containing the open-source-able code with the rest stubbed
> out. Put all your contributions under the GPL3 and we'll do the same."
> 
> If you *really* want to see a GPL'd 4.0 then you'll do it. Since at the
> moment lack of manpower is the only issue holding us back from doing
> exactly that. Internally we are comfortable with the GPL3. We wish to
> create a 4.0 framework that contains as much of the existing code as we can
> bring across and then open it up to the public to assist in filling in the
> code that has to be re-written.
> 
> -- Chris

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