Hi there,
- I really like the GNU GPL and LGPL for software that corresponds to
infrastructure (i.e. things that should be provided on any system, and
must be free and interoperatable because it is so easy for software
to be incompatible (you only need to change one byte).
- I pretty much
Amanjit Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- I really like the GNU GPL and LGPL for software that corresponds
to infrastructure (i.e. things that should be provided on any
system, and must be free and interoperatable because it is so easy
for software to be incompatible (you only need to change
Amanjit Gill writes:
I pretty much dislike the GPL (and LGPL because of the clause that you
can relicense the work under the GPL) for everything else, i.e.
Applications.
So use the LGPL with an added restriction (which will make it incompatible
with the GPL).
I am looking for a BSD-style
So use the LGPL with an added restriction (which will make it incompatible
with the GPL).
Yeah, so I could do LGPL+restriction / GPL dual licensing. Hmm not
nice. First of all I will reconsider if GPL is really a no-no for me.
incompatible. Ok. Use the BSD license and add a
Amanjit Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David Kastrup schrieb:
That is the wrong reason to like the GPL/LGPL, since both of them
guarantee the freedom to change the code.
Yes, but again nobody really changes platform / infrastructure code
_behaviour_ or high level interface _contracts_ on a
Amanjit Gill writes:
Yes, but as soon as it ends up as being GPL it can never go back to BSD.
No. Code released under the BSD license remains under the BSD license.
The derivative work created by combining BSD and GPL code may only be
distributed under the GPL, but you can pull out the BSD
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Amanjit Gill writes:
Yes, but as soon as it ends up as being GPL it can never go back to BSD.
No. Code released under the BSD license remains under the BSD
license. The derivative work created by combining BSD and GPL code
may only be distributed
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote:
The derivative work created by combining BSD and GPL code may only be
distributed under the GPL, but you can pull out the BSD stuff (assuming
you can't find the original BSD code elsewhere) and redistribute it under
the BSD.
David Kastrup
