On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:14:08 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> this was on purpose. > > The recent authors (cedric, me, tom...) decided they didn't like BSD > as the ancient and the license was hurting us as nobody gave back. I'm curious, do you have actual numbers showing if that actually increased the amount of people giving back? And numbers for the amount of people that stopped giving back coz they didn't like LGPL going viral on them? Licence bigotry cuts both ways. > Then when we created Eina to unify data types in ecore and evas, we > proposed to do it in LGPL and people accepted, raster was okay with > that and so we did. There was the usual bun fight when it happened, it wasn't just blindly accepted by all. > we couldn't change the license of the whole code to LGPL because of > practical issues (we'd have to contact and get permission of all > authors), then as the BSD licensed code is basically "casted" into > LGPL automatically there is no problem in mixing them. So basically what you are saying is that instead of asking every one, you enforced it by legal means. Even on those that objected. > You should consider the thing as LGPL. > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Andrew F > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thomas, > > Thanks for pointing that out. Good question. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Strobel <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> i have a question concerning the licensing of EFL. What it the > >> thought behind releasing Eina with LGPL whereas almost everything > >> else is under BSD? I mean, Eina is the most fundamental part out > >> of all, but has the least permissive license. And as Eina is > >> making heavy use of inline functions, that implicitly forces the > >> BSD licensed parts to LGPL as well, or? This raises an interesting point. Inline functions would then essentially change LGPL to GPL. Are there legal opinions on this, and has it been tested in courts? This sort of thing is why some people prefer "ancient" BSD style licences and other more permissive ones. It opens up an entire legal quagmire, and some people just want things to be simple. There are about as many people that think xGPL is a good thing as think it's a bad thing, and likely even more that don't care either way. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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