>> 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.
I would really like to see this happen also. As a commercial software developer, releasing all of my source code is not an option. There are no other XSL engines that are small, fast, and written in c/c++, so many commercial developers are faced with the daunting task of writing their own XSL engine from scratch or porting one over from Java. The whole idea of open source is to allow developers to work together freely. Using the GPL rather than the LPGL excludes an entire class of developers from making valuable contributions to this project.
Dan
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