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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > >> Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > >> Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > >> Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > >> > >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > >> _______________________________________________ > >> enlightenment-devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
