On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:45 AM, 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; 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?

ProFUSION will release its code under LGPL (guarana and possible
others to come). And yes, we think just like you, but the code is
there and the majority of work was done by people that like it, so we
don't care that much, since even if we start to do lots of work, it is
still little compared to the whole codebase...

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Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
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