On Monday, December 13, 2010 5:12:51 AM UTC-5, Branko Vukelic wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > source and freeware for binaries) rather than "LGPL with a commercial > exception" (which could lead to confusion and concern). LGPL _is_ the commercial exception. That's why they call it "lesser". :)
Yes, LGPL (I think) allows the exception to distribute the source along with an application that links/imports the source. I was talking about the other web2py exception, which allows distribution of the binaries without the source at all (i.e., the freeware license for the binaries). Currently, we describe the license as "GPL with a commercial exception" (the "exception" referring to the binary distribution option), but it may be more clear to refer to it as a dual license instead (above, I wrote "LGPL with a commercial exception" because I was assuming Massimo's new proposal, which switches to LGPL but still includes the freeware exception).
