Hi Otavio,
While LGPL is more permissive than GPL, code within the library is still
affected by the virality of the license. There are two possible views on
this:
1) With a permissive (non-reciprocal) license, people might use our code
without contributing back
2) With a reciprocal license, people will be forced to contribute back, but
they might not use the code at all because of that (chilling effect)
I agree that it is a possible risk, but I think that it is probably better
to go for something completely non-viral. The chilling effect is just as bad
as the risk of having people not contributing their code. However, I'd much
prefer having more people involved in the project than a smaller number of
people involved that all contribute code.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Otavio Salvador <ota...@ossystems.com.br>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 06:12, Marc-André Moreau
> <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi FreeRDP developers,
> > It has been in our plans for a while now to change the current licensing
> of
> > FreeRDP to something more permissive. We are currently using GPLv2 for
> > everything, which is not necessarily a good thing, especially when it
> comes
> > to the libraries. LGPL could be a choice, but I am not convinced.
> > I looked at the various popular permissive software licenses and one that
> > stood out was the Apache License 2.0:
> > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
>
> I think Apache or MIT like licenses are bad for the project right now.
> This would allow people to start diverging from our code and "closing
> it" while we still lack many important features.
>
> For example, we (O.S. Systems) could develop smart-card support and do
> not share it with rest of project and this would be a big penalty for
> the project as a whole.
>
> LGPL seems to be the right choice IMO.
>
> --
> Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems
> E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br
> Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br
>
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