Upstart Licence part 2

[Daniel L. Miller]

Scott James Remnant wrote:

> Thanks to everybody who commented on the change of Upstart Licence,
> especially those who responded in private to detail their concerns with
> version 3 of the GNU General Public Licence.
>
> I appreciate the problems highlighted, and that many of you working in
> the embedded community have customers who have not yet been satisfied
> they they understand the implications of the new licence version and are
> not yet prepared to accept it.
>
> I'm pleased to be able to announce that the licence will be changed to
> version 2 of the GNU General Public Licence.  I have already committed
> this change to bzr:
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~scott/upstart/trunk/revision/1124
>
>
> As you may notice, I've also created a new 0.6.0 milestone for Upstart.
> This will be the next release sometime in the next week or so.  It will
> be based off trunk, with the 0.5 and 0.3 branches merged back in.
>
> 0.6.0 will be recommended to replace the current versions of both 0.5
> and 0.3.  Development will continue towards 0.10, which will be
> backwards compatible to 0.6 to ease updating later.
>
>   
Scott,

I want to express my appreciation to you and Canonical for the 
incredibly professional manner in which you have addressed this 
concern.  I have been a ... leech ... from a number of FOSS projects and 
the programmers have often had far less patience in these matters.  Your 
handling of this does you credit and the fact that Canonical has seen 
fit to work with the community in such a cooperative manner is a deed 
worthy of applause.

--
Daniel