1) it should be settled for once and all. So some some deep pondering is
required.
2) in my opinion, for this what if we make it DUAL licensed:
LGPL = so that GPL/LGPL s/w guys and linux distributions are at ease
with it.
BSD = so that commercial/proprietary products can STATICALLY link
libdbi with their products with ease. and then although libdbi-drivers is
currently dynamically linked, but dual licensing it will spawn attempts to make
it statically linkable too.
making it dual licensed will enable anybody to pick it up and do use it as
they want then.
After all, at the end we all just wanna libdbi and libdbi-drivers to be
used/loved by all and without any licensing headaches for using it with their
projects/products, whether he is a open source gpl enthusiast or a vendor
trying to put some proprietary product.
So some steps like that has to be taken . Whatta say?
some discussion links:
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html
http://www.punknix.com/?q=node/99
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2002-07/0206.shtml
http://h2database.com/ipowerb/index.php?s=d305749d1d2f7df015e8f4c8ce8dcb4c&showtopic=191&st=0&#entry932
bye :-)
Ashish Ranjan
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Toby Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8-Mar-07, at 7:59 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Quoting Kjell Irgens :
>
>
>> I have talked to the GPL guru where I work. He says that you can not
>> change the license of something that is LGPL into GPL without the
>> permission from all copyright holders (the original authors). So the
>> old drivers are still LGPL.
>>
>> Your new code can really only be changed into LGPL if you get the
>> permission from all copyright holders, i.e. everyone who has
>> contributed
>> to libdbi-drivers and the SQLite driver. It would probably
>> suffice to
>> ask on this mailing list if anyone disagrees?
>>
>
> Thanks for asking, this legal stuff is really above my head. I'll
> check the cvs logs but I guess that I was the only one who ever
> seriously fiddled with the sqlite/sqlite3 drivers. For the package as
> a whole, could every driver maintainer please indicate whether you
> agree with the license change?
LGPL is fine with me (Ingres driver & minor contributions to other
drivers).
--Toby
>
> regards,
> Markus
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