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
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