On Thursday 06 May 2010 15:02:04 Fabian Deutsch wrote:
Hello,
I just stumbled accross FMCI and think it's a very useful idea.
Currently I got no use for it, but this might help to unify and ease the
management of Fedora based systems.
Great you like the idea!
> >Maybe we should decide which license we will use.
> >GPLv2+ (and LGPLv2+)
> >or GPLv3?
> >I'm for GPLv2+.
>
> I'm not GPLv3 fan and there's no reason for Lesser GPL. Applications are
> not going to be linked to fmci but just using external and public DBus
> interface. Thus I would GPLv2+.
If fmci is modular, it is possible that third parties might add modules
which configure packages just provide by those parties. E.g.: A module to
configure lustre. This module could be proprietary, if fmci was under the
LGPL (is this correct?). libvirt is in a similar position and is also
distributed under the LGPL.
Otherwise I also think that GPLv2+ is a good choice.
Modules are just standalone DBus/Polkit mechanisms - nothing more. So everyone
can ship their own "module" just with similar interface to our default ones
"modules" under any license that fits his needs. We don't want any
configuration
framework at all - that's DBus/Polkit do for us for free ;-)
Jaroslav
- fabian
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