On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Dave Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > >> ok. enough of the squabbling. e is not a political football. license >> is not a >> reason one way or another for success or failure if licenses are oss >> anyway. >> we're squabbling about strawberry vs chocolate. >> >> here's how it will go: >> >> 1. existing libs. the LGPL crowd - RESPECT the licenses already used. >> deal >> with it. the original authors chose the licenses. don't like it? go >> somewhere >> else. this is what pretty much every oss project will say - except for >> very >> small ones. >> >> 2. new libs. he who writes and licenses the lib initially makes the >> license >> call. if its LGPL or BSD - doesn't matter. but RESPECT their choice. >> just like >> they need to RESPECT the choices of existing libs and stop trying to >> change >> them. >> >> 3. new apps. same as libs - choose your license. BEWARE of GPL though. >> you >> CANNOT take the GPL code and put it into an LGPL lib - so if you see >> code going >> from app back to a lib sometime... think many times before GPL. >> licence the APP >> under LGPL - it'd be effectively the same. > > Thanks Raster!! finally a POW that respect the others :) > Are you sure that we can (safetly) use LGPL for apps? From what I read > on the gnu site LGPL is exaclty for libs, I didn't find nothing about > using LGPL in apps.
I know raster already replied, but for sake of completeness, L in LGPL means "LESSER", not LIBRARY, thus it's a LESSER GPL. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
