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	Benson	2009-02-01 , 22:47
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Originally Posted by SD69

Second, this may be tangential but I hope from your Jaiku thread we can take solace that Mer will not use a CC NC or GPLv2 license for the base elements of the platform. The community will benefit if there can be full development of apps.

I don't see any valid reason to exclude GPLv2; to me, that doesn't even make sense. GPLv2 is not a non-commercial license. And a few GPLv2 components don't weaken the protection any GPLv3 sections enjoy, so if v2-only code exists to do something we need, rewriting it seems wasteful.

Last edited by Benson; 2009-02-02 at 00:25.

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