[Linux-ha-dev] Heartbeat API for Version 2 ?

[Keisuke MORI]

Alan,

Thank you for you comments.
I understand the situation.

Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh> writes:
> Alan Robertson wrote:

>> 
>> By project policy, ALL APIs to the project are LGPL.
>> http://linux-ha.org/FileCopyrightPolicy
>> 
>> The developer of the software in question is in violation of
>> long-standing, documented project policy.
>> 
>> I have talked to him about it before.  I hate to have to rewrite the
>> libraries in question, but that may be what we have to do :-(.
>> 
>> The management daemon may also do what you want - and it is licensed LGPL.
>
> To make it clear...  As far as I am personally concerned, a person has
> the right to license their software in any way they wish.  So, although
> I might disagree with him regarding the choice of license for this
> purpose, I personally view that I have no authority to demand that a
> person change their license, nor do I hold him in lower esteem for his
> decision.
>
> My desire for consistent licensing comes from my opinion that our
> customers should not have to read all every source file to discover
> which portions of the system are under which licenses.  For this and
> other reasons, it is my belief that all projects need consistent license
> policies.

I totally agree with this opinion. I luckily noticed the
difference of licenses this time, but the inconsistency will
confuse users, particularly for newbies like me, and it may lead
license violation. With this kind of risk, I might hesitate to
recommend Heartbeat to some customers... that's not my desire.

Of cource I also respect the developer's decision of license,
but I think it would be preferable to keep an uniform,
consistent policy in one project.


> Of course, I still hold hope that persuasion might hold out, and he
> might be convinced to license these library interfaces under the LGPL.
>

And I also prefer that all libraries are under LGPL.

Thanks,

-- 
Keisuke MORI
NTT DATA Intellilink Corporation