On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 19:14 -0200, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri 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.
> 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.
> 

Thanks for the explanation. Just out of curiosity, did it help? I mean,
did you get more people to contribute back to the project now?

> 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.
> 
> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >>   Thomas
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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