"Many months ago I started contacting all F-Spot contributors and now I am happy to announce that the process has been completed: F-Spot is now licensed under the MIT X11 license."
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From Renaissance man: Legal.
The main reason behind that decision seems to be making possible code sharing between F-Spot (a GPL licensed application) and Banshee (MIT/X11 license). F-Spot was able to get Banshee code, but Banshee wasn’t without moving to GPL.
So the solution seems to be moving F-Spot into a more permissive license, that IMHO it’s a wrong move.
F-Spot is still open source, and I don’t think that will change anything from users point of view (at least short term), but if the argument it’s hey, it’s still free… you FSF Taliban!
, I wonder if there’s a reason to not move Banshee into GPL.
