On 07/27/2012 12:55 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
"3.You can also re-license the finished product under a commercial
license of your choice" this seems to be the biggest difference with
LGPL. But there's also another big difference, and EPL program is
incompatible with all other OS licenses
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#USEINANOTHER
So it's more restrictive than BSD, MIT, Apache, etc...
Alex,
[snipped to break out this particular thought]
This is best illustrated with a use case. GeoServer uses EPL code hosted
at Eclipse today. GeoServer is licensed under the GPL. GPL is
incompatible with the EPL since both clauses cannot be true at the same
time. This was addressed by GeoServer issuing a GPL exception for the
EPL software it consumed. So the choice whether GeoServer wanted to
consume EPL code was theirs.
You're right though... BSD, MIT, Apache wouldn't have this issue - at
the expense of not having the weak copyleft. Basically people can take
the code and do what they wish with it.
A project can decide what makes the most sense for them. I'm guessing
that projects that chose LGPL (or GPL for that matter) did so in part
because of the copyleft.
Andrew
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