<br clear="all">>Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:57:10 -0500<br>>From: Karl Kleinpaste <<a href="mailto:karl@kleinpaste.org">karl@kleinpaste.org</a>><br><snip><br>>On one very serious note... Do not presume to lecture people working<br>
>with this organization on "the ramifications of the GPL." Some of us<br>>having been producing free software since before the concept gained<br>>trendy names, much less well-advertised licensing schemes.<br>
<br><br> I sincerely apologize.<br><br> I had mistakenly understood one of the comments from another user to be the goal of the entire group. That was my mistake.<br><br> The comment was to the effect that the Sword project did not allow commercial usage. The GPL allows commercial usage. I apologize for coming across a lecturing, but I wanted to let the group (since I thought it was a group goal) know that the license needed to be changed if commercial usage of Sword was forbidden (as I presumed it was due to the post.) I had also learned something about dual licenses from a discussion with lawyers regarding Sun not publishing code that was LGPL, and I tried to share what had been given to me.<br>
<br> I have since been educated that your group really does understand the GPL, and the possible commercial use of Sword is well understood by most of the group.<br><br> Unfortunately, email does not carry tone along with it. I seem to have hurt your sensibilities, and I apologize again. I made a mistake.<br>
<br> I'll look through the archive when I find them, and see if I can uncover the work you did.<br><br> As I said in an earlier post, my email did not pick up either the post I made or the replies to it until recently. (Don't know why.)<br>
<br>Maranatha!<br>Wade<br><br><br>