On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Ryan Bramantya <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on Razor-Qt licensing policies that I read, the author of Razor-Qt > prefer LGPL over GPL. > > How the merge of LXDE and Razor-Qt will affect the future of LXDE-Qt? Will > it also prefer LGPL over GPL. > I suggest both developers should consider it earlier before everything get > more complicated. > My opinion is to prefer LGPL over GPL, as it will help wider acceptance for > LXDE-Qt especially from corporate support that may interested with LXDE or > from non-Linux operating system that avoid GPL as possible (e.g. FreeBSD). > Just for information, there are many notable projects which avoid or switch > their license from GPL to more relaxed license for wider acceptance reason : > VLC, GEGL, ApacheOpenOffice, SDL, PySide, etc. > > Source: > https://github.com/Razor-qt/razor-qt/wiki/Licensing-policy > > -- > > Best regards, > Ryan Bram
As far as I know, almost all existing razor components are using LGPL. The only exception is razor-config, which contains GPL code. Besides, in razor-config-mouse component, there are some file licensed under WTFPL, which seems to be GPL compatible. On the lxde side, most components are GPL'd, and some contains LGPL and MIT code. Since we now well separated components into their own repos, it's easy to limit the scope of GPL code and prevent GPL infection. Cheers! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
