On Mar 19, 1:47 pm, William <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 18, 2:28 pm, Sebastien Lelong <[email protected]> > wrote:
> > The only restriction would be the license: every files put in the pond > > should be under ZLIB license, we know we can use them, without to ask author > > every time. > > I don't think I suggested it, but I like it fine. I don't much care > what it is named. Eventually, if it is as popular as I suspect, we > may decide to name it JALLIB. :-) > > William See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html The Zlib is a not so well known Why not have a list of approved licences? FreeBSD is similar to Zlib and better known if you want like zlib http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html However Zlib is OK IMO Creative Commons is not as you actually in reality give up copyright. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html as to why removing Copyright is bad. (c) xxxx by mmmmm under the Geneva convention allows you to add what ever terms to distribution and copying you desire. It's because of "real" copyright that most of the Licences on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html are actually legal. However not all are equally "good". It depends on your aim. It should also be noted that Free Software Foundation and GNU are occasionally crazy, when their Zeal overcomes reality and common sense. Why you might want TWO different licences for a software Library (especially if conversion to and from C is easy) "Using the ordinary GPL is not advantageous for every library. There are reasons that can make it better to use the Lesser GPL in certain cases. The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is better to use the Lesser GPL for that library. This is why we used the Lesser GPL for the GNU C library. After all, there are plenty of other C libraries; using the GPL for ours would have driven proprietary software developers to use another—no problem for them, only for us." see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html as to why some libraries need GPL and some need Lesser GPL. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html For documents http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html I'm not a convinced that all documentation and/or software needs "copyleft" or GPL compatibility to be "free" nor that all such should always be "free" (there are different kinds of free). But if you are going to have "Free" with optionally "copyleft", then consider the licences for the "Freestyle/pond/sump/Septic tank/Junkbox/ Misc" library and give the Library an appropriate name. Not all SW contributed needs to have same licence either, For the "Freestyle/pond/sump/Septic tank/Junkbox/Misc" library we could decide any of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses or the above as well as http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses applies. IMO there is no decent GPL schematic package. Eagle is 100% commercial and proprietary. The "free" version only does one page and very small PCB. I have a bought professional version (up to 100mm x 160mm PCB) and any number of pages. However the "free" version will open, print, plot etc any files even up to very large PCBs of the most expensive version, so it's a good distribution medium. It's on Linux and Windows. I have 2 other bought packages and have used about six packages over long periods. Eagle is a good compromise if you don't have $5,000+ up to $100,000 to spare. It's not a hobby package but used by professionals. Very good selection of libraries and easy to create library parts. It interfaces (via 3rd party free plugin) direct to PCB mill costing under $2,000. The Mill can do 20GHz boards on 0.8mm and thinner substrate and cut plastic front panels. www.colinbus.com see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdqBrciQZU&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i9zDB6IiBM I built and used one in my last job. 900MHz (0.8mm FR4) radio with stripline filters and 10.5GHz PCBs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
