On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote: > ... > I'm thinking the examples should probably be 'public domain', > to prevent the GPL/LGPL restrictions which require 'derived works' > to be given back to the lib. I can see where pedantic interpretation > of the LGPL could prevent someone from copy/pasting an example > and building a commercial app around that which would then be > subject to legal entanglement of making their commercial > 'derivative' work public.
"Public domain" isn't a global concept, so the usual workaround is to use a BSD-like license that allows arbitrary usage. That said, not all of the examples are the kind that I would expect to just copy and paste, and in particular I don't want my games (Sudoku and Blocks) to be licensed under a BSD (or public domain) license - I already see enough commercial distribution of those titles... ________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
