On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Nathan Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So your argument is that you don't need to justify your choices
> because you're more active right now?

Basically, and because your license says so.

As for keeping core consistent, we CAN, if this is the only blocker,
relicense ALL core components as LGPL and keep individual files as
BSD, this is perfectly doable, just need to have the file header with
the proper license.

BSD files, while cannot be relicensed, can be "casted" (like in
strongly typed language's cast) to LPGL. So whenever, during runtime,
you link against LGPL, your resulting process is governed by LGPL.
LGPL, on the other side, when linked to GPL, results in GPL and so the
process and associated libraries. If you make this linkage static, or
files inside the same process (can be defined as static linkage as
well), you have to consider it all as the most demaing (ie: LGPL).

That means we can license the PROJECT (ie: evas, ecore) under LGPL
without asking anyone, we don't even have to mention that some files
inside the project are BSD (since we're open source and bsd-raster
says we don't have to acknoldge if it's open source, just if it's
closed we need to inform the authors). What we must do is to keep BSD
files with the proper header, if one wants to be smart and take files
to compose a proprietary product, he can go through every file and
check if it's possible or not, but the project overview or advice is
to be LGPL.

And before you continue, your license permits this, it's ok for you.
If you find this is WRONG, then we're in the same boat, and we should
go to LGPL to progressively "fix" this, replacing BSD bits with code
evolution.

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Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
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