On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:04:10 +0100 Dima Pasechnik <dimpase+...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what makes one think that LGPLv3 has issues with web > applications. > This applies to AGPL, but not to LGPL, as far as I know. You are right about the AGPL, however, the LGPL3 license inherits from the GPL3 one (the LGPL2 license was standalone), and this is as part of the GPL3: " 13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License. Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General Public License, section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the combination as such. " Which is an invitation to include AGPL code (and whenever this happens, the rest of the project becomes tainted, with the new usage restrictions of the AGPL applying). I say usage restrictions, because it's not only a distribution matter, but like an EULA affecting usage (every running instance serving on a network must permit to download the full project including any added code used by the site)... which seems unacceptable (perhaps even unenforcable, and an unrealistic restriction that many users would not follow). That said, my impression is that if the project is centrally controlled and its official distributions don't allow any AGPL tainted components (and avoiding any AGPL tainted LGPL3 dependencies), it is probably unlikely to become a problem? However, including LGPL3 code into the source tree (GMP/MPIR in this case) would force relicensing of ECL to LGPL3 or "LGPL3 and later"? While there seems to be no FSF-sponsored "LGPL3 and later except for clause 13 of the GPL pertaining to AGPL" alternative... Yet a centrally controlled distribution could still refuse AGPL contributions in the official source as a policy? -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
