On Mon, 15 May 2000, Kaiserovi wrote:
> We would like to know your opinion on the following issue. We received a
> suggestion for changing the Sablotron license from GNU GPL to GNU LGPL
> (Library or Lesser GPL). The reason in this particular case was the
> planned development of a Delphi interface; in general, the change would
> make the library accessible to developers of proprietary software, while
> any extensions or modifications of it would have to remain LGPL.
>
> It seems to us that the LGPL would be OK for Sablotron, and that if such
> a change is to be made, it should be made soon. We want to ask whether
> you have any objections to the license change. Please let us know,
> especially if you have already contributed some code or you are
> considering doing so.
>
> We hope you understand that this step has nothing to do with "closing"
> the software - it just makes it useable for more people.
That works fine for me - in fact AxKit probably wasn't compliant with the
license in the case of the pure GPL.
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