Thread: Introducing the licensing change requests queue
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Master of Gizmo is offline Master of Gizmo
2010-08-15 , 11:39
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#51
Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Opening components is not a trivial task if you want things done the right way. Discussions like this one focus on the re-licensing, which is actually one of the simplest steps. Preparing the code of a long lived binary blog for publishing, documenting, offering support, dealing with contributions and producing new releases is where the diff of work relies, and it's a significant diff.
You could indeed just throw the undocumented tarball at the community. People would sure prefer a version incl. support and documentation, but theiy'd rather have the plain tarball than nothing at all.

This procedure can actually work. This is exactly how netscape communicator became mozilla. And we all know how this story ended: The once nearly dead communicator finally gave birth to firefox.
 

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