On Tuesday September 7 2010 01:12:02 Harish Narayanan wrote: > On 9/7/10 12:27 PM, Anders Logg wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:26:03AM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote: > >> On 9/6/10 7:13 PM, Anders Logg wrote: > >>> eA bunch of different licenses are used for various FEniCS components, > >>> mostly different versions of GPL and LGPL. > >>> > >>> I would be practical to clean up among the licenses and maybe even use > >>> the same license for all components. At least, we should settle on > >>> either GPL or LGPL v3 or any later version for all components. One > >>> immediate benefit is that a common license would simplify packaging > >>> for Debian/Ubuntu since that requires listing all licenses used and > >>> that involves some work (even for DOLFIN alone!). > >>> > >>> One implication is the need for changing the DOLFIN license which is > >>> now LGPL v2.1. > >>> > >>> An important point to consider is the potential implication of the GPL > >>> license used in FFC and UFL, which might force GPL on DOLFIN. > >>> > >>> I have added a blueprint: > >>> > >>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fenics/+spec/license > >>> > >>> Please comment here and on the blueprint whiteboard. > >> > >> Are there any plans for a proprietary product built atop the FEniCS > >> components? (Imagine a fancy GUI frontend or something.) Or posed in > >> another way, how would the community feel if something like this was > >> built on FEniCS, and sold by someone else (or one of their own) for > >> profit? (And not have any of their cool extensions contributed back.) > > > > There are no concrete plans that I know of, but I have had many > > questions about the choice of license and possibilities for making > > proprietary products on top of FEniCS. > > I guess the question is how one feels about this, as therein lies the > difference between LGPL and GPL. And since there are many votes for > LGPL---and it will likely win this little vote---I will voice my support > for GPL. As in, if in the future there exists some cool frontend or > something for FEniCS, I would like such a tool (or its underlying > enhancements) to be freely available for teaching students and such.
The reason I lean towards LGPL is that we probably gets more users Johan > > GPL tends to be my default choice of license, but there are advantages > > to LPGL, one of them being that it can be converted to GPL at will (by > > anyone). ;-) > > But the code just before this change can (and will) be forked by someone > looking to make a buck, and bundle their proprietary app on top. > > Harish > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
