On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:33:33 +0200 Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> said:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:13:13AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > edje: > > > The second paragraph is non-OSI and some parts are weird, e.g. the file > > > doesn't actually contain a copyright notice. I think the 2-clause BSD > > > license covers the intention and is OSI approved, but that's your call. > > > > if you only ship OSI approved software then you won't be shipping efl. :) > > but yes. copyright notice seems to have vanished. odd. need to fix that. > > anyway - the license is the 2 clause bsd with addendum that effectively > > makes it like lgpl which removes the gpl incompatibility. it provides no > > restrictions on apps or libs that link to the the efl lib. it provides for > > restrictions for people distributing the efl lib as stand-alone or > > statically compiled. if by incompatibility you mean either gpl apps using > > efl libraries OR gpl apps shipping along inside a distro package set with > > these efl apps. > > The 2-clause BSD license is GPL compatible. The primary difference > between 2-clause BSD license and MIT license is the clarification that > binary distributions have to provide the copyright notice separately in > text form. From the COPYING-PLAIN, I can't find a reason to not use the > straight forward 2-clause BSD license, if the above is your only concern. well the intent is to still get some kind of acknowledgment. be it via a simple "ldd" and see what it links to or a ls /usr/lib and see libevas.so* or via a notice in documentation, source code publication or email etc. - some mechanism to say "hey - we used your stuff". the 2 clause bsd doesn't. the 3 clause does but creates compat issues. the efl modified 3 clause should be issue-free. > Just by chance, edje_cache.c has a copyright and LGPL license header. > It might be useful to carefully check for those as well :) argh. sachiel... why did you add that in? as such we dont put separate copyright notices per file (mostly because it creates maintenance hassle and is not strictly needed - it's a legal nicety if someone steals a file wholesale - but then they wont be shipping it as source anyway and so will be hidden no matter what). -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
