On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Nicolas JEAN <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking into Symfony right now, and this stopped my reading: > " > 8. License > Licenses are important simply because they can have a significant impact on > your applications. For example, an application developed using a > GPL-licensed framework will necessarily be subject to GPL. On the other > hand, this is not the case for an MIT-licensed framework. > " > http://symfony.com/ten-criteria > > This seems untrue for several reasons, at best not worded very carefully.
The careful wording is probably too complicated to the statements intended use/ > As I understand it, for example, using a GPL framework probably does not > make your project "necessarily subject to" the GPL. Anyone more on this? > Isn't that exactly what the GPL linking exception is for? This case would be of a of an application developed using a GPL-licensed framework with a GPL linking-exception, which is not the scenario described. Of course the license also covers distribution of works, not development. > What do you people of the Free Software think? :) I can imagine that any such exception for an application framework would have to be negotiated individually for each application project to have the exception. If it were a general exception it would be equivalent to a MIT license :-) if your application is also GPL (and there are good reasons for making it GPL) then it would not be a problem. MIT license addresses convenience more than liberty. Liberty must be carefully preserved. Sam _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
