Henri Yandell wrote:
To answer Richard's question (didn't see it) I think the only political difficulty is the usual 'Free-Software' vs 'Open-Source' one that has existed for a long time. Which links to Henning's point; we spend tonnes of time and effort on tiny matters on legal pedantics instead of coding.
True, but on the other hand we could spend tonnes of times and effort duplicating LGPL code because no one cleared the legal uncertaincy.
Now we're onto the IANAL stuff and ponderings on how to get such suggestions to a lawyer without it turning into an expensive 2 week Q&A. Can Promissory Estoppel (whatever that is) be given just on a website etc.
For example, I'd love to see an ASF lawyer come up with a concise 'footnote' to the LGPL that we could ask Java LGPL users to add to their licences. Or just a 'promissory estoppel' that could be placed there.
That's a good idea, how do we contact the ASF lawyers ?
Emmanuel Bourg
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