On 15/02/2010 20:12, Greg Smith wrote: > Federico Di Gregorio wrote: >> I just wanted all interested people know that psycopg2 2.0.14 to be >> released in the next few days will be under the LGPL3 + OpenSSL >> exception (example code and tests under the LGPL3 alone because they are >> never linked to OpenSSL). > > Great news and I look forward to the release. One small thing to > consider: having more than one license can turn into a cost to users of > your software who are required to have each license reviewed for legal > issues, and I'd think that maintaining two has some cost for you too. > If it's possible for you to fold all these into a single license, that > would really be a lot nicer. Being able to say "psycopg2 is LGPL3 + > OpenSSL exception", period, is much easier for people to deal with than > having two licenses and needing to include the description you gave > above for explanation. Having to educate a lawyer on how linking works, > so they understand the subtle distinction for why the two licenses > exist, is no fun at all.
Even if tests and examples code aren't almost never distributed except in the psycopg2 source package? A couple of other people contributed to the tests: if you really feel like it is so important I'll contact them and ask their permission to use the LGPL3 + exception (the contribution was without the exception) or remove the code (we won't lose much.) federico -- Federico Di Gregorio federico.digrego...@dndg.it Studio Associato Di Nunzio e Di Gregorio http://dndg.it God is in the rain... -- Evey Hammond
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