On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jorge Luis Zapata Muga <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I dont pretend to start a flamewar, if you do, please dont answer this
> thread.The thing is that right now, the EFL has arrived to a place
> where different companies are using this software, and several of us
> are working on a company using the efl (raster, gustavo, cedric, me,
> anyone else?).
>
> >From a closed source company POV, BSD license is great because they
> dont need to give us anything back (fancypants example?); but for
> companies that do want to build an opensource initiative based on the
> EFL, BSD is not so great, because their code can be stolen from
> others;


AFAIK, folks developing using EFL can release their apps under another
license. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that BSDL doesn't force you to
use BSDL for your own code using BSDLd stuff.


> so whats your opinion on this? how to achieve an open source
> compromise and still be able to use EFL and develop for it?. In my
> opinion building a company around BSD license is not an option for the
> market, but GPL'ing libraries is not good as it leaves all the BSD ppl
> away, maybe LGPL?


And from this POV, what would be the difference between BSDL and LGPL?


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