On Wednesday 25 July 2007 01:51, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > 1) We will continue to accept only code that's licensed under a BSD- > style (no advertising clause) license, or LGPL 2.1, or other > compatible license. We don't want to accept code that's LGPL 3 only, > as that would make the whole project LGPL 3. > I think continuing to require "LGPL 2 or later" would be the most sane and most compatible.
> 2) We'd like to change the copyright notices from their current mix of > "LGPL 2 or any later version" and "LGPL 2.1 or any later version" to > just LGPL 2.1, to make this clear. This one is maybe more debatable, > so I'd like to know if anyone objects. It would prevent incorporating > WebKit code into LGPL 3 projects, and would require sign-off from all > copyright holders to ever change to a different LGPL version in the > future (in case the FSF came out with a version 3.1 or 4 that solved > some of the problems with v3). > I object. I would like to reserve the right to integrate WebKit with LGPL 3 projects like future KDE libs. Though since we are talking LGPL the linking-issues are not that problematic, it would still make it easier if the project continued to include the "or later" clause. Regards `Allan _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
