IANAL but I believe you are stuck with liberal licensing or creating your own special license. In practice license makes no difference; if the project is successful it will always have contributions back.
Joe On Apr 8, 1:07 am, David Tinker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm. Our intention is to allow the use of GWT Portlets in commercial > closed source projects without forcing those projects to become open > source. We do want people who modify the framework to contribute their > changes back to the community. That is why we chose LGPL instead of > GPL or Apache 2. > > Is there anyone on this thread who is a lawyer who can answer this > question? What do we need to do to fulfill our intent as described > above? > > Cheers > David > > On Apr 7, 12:48 pm, Joe Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Your logic applies to normal java linking (see fsf's lgpl and java > > post) but with gwt, it seems it may be thought of as static linking: > > >http://pocketdope.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-you-shouldnt-use-lgpl-for-... > > > Personally, I would agree. > > > Thoughts? > > > On Apr 7, 3:04 pm, Vitali Lovich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Joe Cole > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Looks great. What are the implications for the use of the LGPL? From > > > > my understanding LGPL + gwt = distribute source? > > > > No - you only have to distribute the changes you make to the library > > > (can't > > > recall the fundamental differences between v2 & v3 for LGPL, but this > > > remains the same because that's the fundamental reason LGPL exists in > > > parallel with GPL). > > > > > Joe > > > > > On Apr 7, 1:37 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > GWT Portlets is a free open source web framework for building modular > > > > > GWT (Google Web Toolkit) applications. GWT provides the low level > > > > > building blocks required to build web applications (Java to Javascript > > > > > compiler, basic UI widgets, an RPC mechanism etc.) but typical > > > > > business applications can benefit from the additional scaffolding > > > > > provided by GWT Portlets. In traditional web applications this role > > > > > would be fulfilled by Struts and other web frameworks. > > > > > >http://www.gwtportlets.org/ > > > > > > Please have a look. All feedback will be appreciated. > > > > > > Note that the signup mails send by the site tend to get eaten by spam > > > > > filters so check your spam folder if you don't receive the mail. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
