On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 18:49 +0200, Bernd R. Fix wrote: > David Leimbach schrieb: > > Anyway to get a non GPL v3 licensed version from you? I may not be able to > > use this implementation for what I want otherwise. > > I was actually planning on doing this myself, anyway at one point, and > > BSDLng it. > > I guess there is a clash of licenses between your project and J9P. So > what licence are you using (I assume it is no commercial project) and > what makes it problematic? I am not too deep into this licensing business. > > As (currently) sole copyright holder I can make exceptions, but I feel > that this problem should be solved in a more general way. Any ideas? > Feel free to contact me via private mail on this. > > I thought about using the LGPL for the project and might reconsider that > once a stable stage is reached.
Not implying anything, just a question: what made you pick GPL in the first place? Thanks, Roman. P.S. Personally, I try to license my stuff under as non-restrictive license as possible (BSD or at least LGPL) that still protects me. That said, I do understand people who use GPL as a statement, not because the license is particularly good.