I have to agree with David's post. We chose you over other options because of the BSD license. It gave us legal protections we could no get with LGPL.
BSD Allows start ups to raise funds. Why? because investors are not going to fund a company that can't protects its code. Remember there is no legal ambiguity with the BSD license and plenty with the LGPL. And Legal ambiguity is the kiss of death for investors. With success, funds can be donated back to the base project when using a BSD license. To be honest... I think you cut your nuts off. You could have focused on marketing your professional consulting services or development services and raised funds that way. You could also have modified the licensee or added a commercial license. QT seems to be doing very well. You could have also been genuine and simply asked for financial assistance. You could have had fund raisers, on line or in person. BSD unix makes it annual budget with on-line fund raising. And when I say give back after the fact, its not lip service. Not only did we intend to give back to e17/e18/3x but we have budgeted for it. In fact we have added LINE ITEMS on our budget to cover quarterly donations for open source code that we use. And it makes scene for us. Open source developers develop the base product and we put a functional and good looking wrapper on it for end users. Open source teams do what they do well, which is develop core technologies, and we do what we do well, sell and market. ( and build functional and good looking wrappers) So, what do we do now? Find a new desktop? But we have been working on e17 /e18 for a while.... Our second choice was QT as they have a commercial license. On top of finding a new desktop, now I have to adjust our budgets. I have to take out a line item. Not a happy camper. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Thomas Strobel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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