On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote: >> If we were going to be >> that purist we might as well switch from the LGPL to the GPL >> ourselves. > > To be clear, I have never wanted to do that, and I don't think it is > the right path - I hope R. Stogner, Esquire is simply offering that > as what strict compliance would mean for us.
Yikes! I completely agree, sorry if I accidentally insinuated otherwise. I don't share Derek's newfound anger at the GPL. If people want to get paid for their software that's fine, and if their preferred form of pay is "you can't link with it without open sourcing some of your stuff" rather than "you can't run it without giving me some of your money" that's fine too. But I don't want either policy for libMesh. > I certainly applaud what the GPL tries to accomplish, but I also > feel it is orthogonal to what libMesh is trying to accomplish. If > someone wants to use our code to build a closed source app I don't > really have a problem with that, in fact I would be willing to sell > them a support contract. ;-) Agreed. Time to replace or marginalize libHilbert, then. What was the advantage of that over the sfcurves code? > My main thought with the LGPL originally was that the GPL may be too > heavy handed for paranoid academic types... Then we got lucky. We've had too many contributors of major chunks of code at this point; if we ever did want to change the license to something non-LGPL-upgradeable, it'd probably be easier to start rewrite from scratch than to hunt down everybody who sent in large-enough-to-copyright patches under the understanding that they were going to be LGPLed. --- Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
