dan sinclair schrieb: > On 24-Jul-08, at 5:26 PM, Peter Wehrfritz wrote: > > >> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri schrieb: >> >>> One thing I'd like to see here is the opinion of those that do most >>> of >>> the code these days, guys like englebass, dj2, pfritz and raster. You >>> wrote lots of code already, and continue to do, what do you think >>> about relicensing the code under LGPL? >>> >>> >>> >> I'm not an author of one of the core libs, but since you are asking >> me, >> here is what i think about it. >> >> I personally don't like the LGPL, because IMHO it doesn't really work >> for applications. It sounds somewhat odd if you read the license for >> an >> application and they only talk about libraries. And I strongly believe >> that one should use the same license for applications and libraries. >> It >> happens often that you move some code from a lib to an app and vice >> versa, or you turn a whole app into a library. So maybe something like >> MPL would be better, but afaik you get with the MPL troubles with the >> debian folks. Don't know how it is with the CPL. >> >> I still prefer the 3-clause BSD license, I code, because it is fun. If >> some makes money with my code, it doesn't change the fact that i had >> fun >> while writing it and he also doesn't steal my code. I still have my >> code! >> >> Besides that believing that a company contributes to your LGPLed >> library/application because it uses/modifies your code is wrong. >> Take a >> look on the khtml history and you'll see that using the lgpl doesn't >> implicate or ensure that you'll receive useful patches. >> >> At the end, this decision is not up to me. >> > > > Couldn't have said it better myself. > > (Oh, and Peter, you are listed as a main author of Ewl (for almost a > year and a half, heh)) > > I know :), I thought we are talking about the core-libs, of course, I hope that ewl will stay under the BSD license.
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