Em Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:49:25 -0800 (PST)
mdipierro <[email protected]> escreveu:

> 
> Sorry no. In my view BSD protects developers (they have to be
> mentioned in derivative products, product gets used more, more
> developers can use it) while GPL protects users (developers cannot
> stop open source development and create a closed source commercial
> derivative). web2py is about protecting users. Linux is a successful
> OS because it is GPL.

Yes and i agree to your point, but, what about LGPL ? What about it
that will not protect the users ?

I mean, what is the issue to the users if web2py is changed to LGPL ?
o you mean that if i already develop opensource software if web2py,
and get a closed source software contract, i cant use web2py to do the
work ?

> On Nov 13, 7:59 am, Douglas Soares de Andrade <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Em Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:45:34 -0800 (PST)
> > mdipierro <[email protected]> escreveu:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > yes. need latest web2py stable
> >
> > > from gluon.template import render
> > > print render(content='{{for i in
> > > range(10)}}{{=a}}{{pass}}',context= {'a':'hello\n'})
> >
> > > if you want to use the helpers you also need to import them
> >
> > > from gluon.template import render
> > > from gluon.html import *
> > > print render(content='{{for i in
> > > range(10)}}{{=a}}{{pass}}',context= {'a':DIV('hello')})
> >
> > > You can use  context='..' or stream=open(...) or filename='...',
> > > you can also pass a path=... required for lookup in case the
> > > tamplate content contains {{include...}} {{extend...}}
> >
> > > If you do this your code will be bound to be GPL2 because web2py
> > > source is GPL2.
> >
> > Hi Massimo,
> >
> > Dont you think it could be an issue ? What about if you have someone
> > that likes web2py template but needs to create commercial apps ?
> >
> > Cant we use bsd license or even better, LGPL ?
> >
> > Im asking this, because PySide (LGPL bindings to Qt4) were created
> > (among other things) because of PyQt licensing.
> > 

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