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<B>Shlomi Fish</B>
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<I>Sun Sep 30 13:35:32 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Hi Steven,
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:14:03 +1000
Steven Tucker <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tuxta2 at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> Hi everyone,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I have been doing a little work on the proposed control center - mcc2
</I>><i>
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> and would like to put a couple of questions forward to find some
</I>><i> direction.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> 1/ What should we call it ??
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I have been using mcc2 as a working name, however I'm not
</I>><i> convinced this is the right approach. I will soon be uploading the
</I>><i> code (been using my own svn repo up till now), and it would be good
</I>><i> to start with the name it will stick with. Should the name relate to
</I>><i> Mageia?, or should it be more generic?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> 2/ What languages should be available for writing modules? (Perl,
</I>><i> C++, python and Ruby are possibilities)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So far mcc2 has been written in Perl (even though I had
</I>><i> never written a line of Perl prior to starting this) so as to make
</I>><i> porting existing modules a matter of just replacing the Ui calls, but
</I>><i> I do like the idea of allowing the modules to be written in more than
</I>><i> 1 language to encourage more contributors who may be turned off by
</I>><i> having to learn another language.
</I>><i> Sticking with Perl will make mcc2 core easier, so I may do that
</I>><i> initially regardless. What do you all think?? Is sticking with 1
</I>><i> language preferred even if it means less contributors, or is the goal
</I>><i> to attract as many module developers as possible?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> 3/ What should the license be?
</I>><i> I would be happy to make it GPL V3, but is there any
</I>><i> argument for something different ?
</I>><i>
</I>
The problem with the GPLv3 is that it is incompatible with code that
is GPLv2-only. So the code should preferably be GPLv2-and-above or even
LGPLv2-and-above or under the <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License</A> .
Otherwise, one is introducing many future potential incompatibilities (and
you can thank the FSF for that!).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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