On Saturday 1 August 2009 06:13:47 Kelvin Lawson wrote: > Interesting question. From the start I always intended for PyKaraoke to be > usable in commercial projects. To that end I deliberately avoided GPL to > remove any restrictions / concerns that commercial projects may have about > whether they are free to use it. Rather than go with a BSD-style license, > however, I settled on LGPL so that anyone could use it within their > products but any changes to the core code should be submitted back. > Essentially I'm happy for people to use it in any kind of product, but I'd > like to encourage people to submit back improvements for everyone else's > benefit. > I can certainly understand and appreciate this.
> However I can see that there may be an argument for not applying the same > license to the GUI itself. While I think the above is a sensible approach > for the CDG, KAR etc playback modules it might not necessarily make sense > for the GUI. So I am not against applying the GPL to the GUI, but I wanted > to let you know my original thoughts from a few years back when I started > the project and to gauge general opinion as well. If anyone has any opinion > on this then please let us know. Appreciate getting the history of the decisions. We have no objections to the CDG, KAR etc remaining LGPL. It's the GUI code that we would be in favour of applying the full GPL to. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list Pykaraoke-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
