Vincent Torri wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, dan sinclair wrote:
>
>
>>> 2. What will be the reaction from developers that want BSD license?
>>> from what i've deduced on IRC and ML, several of this developers
>>> *won't* contribute to this library if it is not BSD, (please those
>>> developers that think that this is point is for them, confirm or deny
>>> this). In my opinion the current state of e developers is too small to
>>> actually divide it based on the license they prefer; and of course
>>> that argument "imposes" the license the library can be. So, the main
>>> question on this point is: if it is LGPL are you going to contribute
>>> to it? and, if it is LGPL are you going to *link" against this
>>> library?
>>>
>> I won't help if it's LGPL. I also won't link to it in my code as I
>> won't fix bugs in it.
>>
>
> People like Cedric and Gustavo and their companies are more open minded
> than you. Their companies work with and on the efl. With he BSD licence,
> their work can be stolen. But They are sufficiently aware of the
>
They're not stealing anything Vincent, nor are they "leeches" like mej
characterized - they're exercising a right you've explicitly given them
under the terms of the license.
Whenever you contribute to this license, you are expressly championing
their right to do so.
> powerfulness of the efl and open minded to allow them to share code.
> Without that open-minded-ness, such improvements woud never have hit cvs.
>
> That library is not a big one, it's not the most powerful lib on earth.
> Just a data type lib. You do not want to help, well, if you don't like
> LGPL, why not. But not linking against it, it's completely crazy.
>
> Does that mean that you also don't link against any lgpl (or other
> licence that is not like BSD or MIT) lib that exist ?
>
> Vincent
>
>
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