On Friday, 14 October 2005, at 06:10:31 (-0400),
Jose O Gonzalez wrote:

>       All of this appears reasonable, and yet there are arguments that
> are also reasonable to the effect that license XYZ is instead a 'better'
> way to go.
>       Rather than agonize over attempting to dissect the fine points of
> license A over license B, one can offer the option of both (if possible)
> as has been suggested by the poster.
>       In particular, if BSD and LGPL are the A and B here, then why not
> have all "e" code covered under a choice of either - ie. a company or
> a distribution can use BSD or LGPL as they wish. Where is there a loss to
> e, or its developers, in this added extra flexibility??

As raster said, this is an explanation, not a discussion.  The
decision was made (and hashed out at length) a very long time ago, and
it isn't under review.  Been there, done that, moved on.  :-)

Michael

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