On Monday 22 August 2005 18:56, Jack Carroll wrote:
>  Possibly community contributions may need to be dual-licensed from
> the beginning, so that they're under LGPL, but Traversal is also allowed to
> merge them with proprietary Verilog files that go into the ASIC build.  Or
> maybe LGPL allows both uses of outside contributions as long as the source
> files are statically linked but not actually merged; I haven't really
> studied LGPL the way I have GPL.

Is there any reason why we would want to permit linking the software model 
with proprietary software? I don't see why it shouldn't just be the GPL 
rather than the LGPL...

>  The "community" might be defined as everybody who isn't an employee
> or officer of Traversal.

Well, I don't really see the problem. If you create a fork of the code and 
publish it under the GPL, then you're a publisher of open source software, 
and thus by definition member of the open source community.

Lourens

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