Hi Antti-Juhani,
Thanks for your reply about licensing of Hugs. Your comments, and those
of others have been very useful.
| As I've written above, you
| have at least three ways of making that possible:
|
| 1. Plain GPL Hugs
| 2. Hugs distributed under the GPL or the Artistic at the distributor's
| discretion
| 3. Hugs with a BSDish license (without the advertising clause)
For various reasons, I don't think option 1 is something we are likely
to (be able to) consider, but option 2 has been suggested by a couple
of people and might work well. Option 3, however, is also of interest,
not least because it seems that it might be the simplest. I will
take another look at the BSD example on www.opensource.org. Just to
clarify, I want to be sure that I understand why option 3 would allow
Hugs to be linked with GPL'd software. Is it simply that a BSDish
license gives users the freedom to redistribute Hugs under (almost)
any other license, and hence to distribute it under GPL, if they so
choose, without requiring everyone else (or indeed, anyone else) to
do the same.
All the best,
Mark
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