Harry has a good point. If Dave had solicited opinions on it, I wouldn't have dreamed of asking! I'd just assume you chose GPL for your reasons and that they should be respected. =)
Iain On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Harry van Haaren <harryhaa...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:38 PM, David Robillard <d...@drobilla.net> wrote: > >> It never hurts to ask ;) >> > > Yes I suppose your right. I'll note though, that I'd concider myself > hesitant to request an author of GPL software to re-license as LGPL. Its > basically asking "mind if *I* earn money from *your* work?", and that's not > something that I'd like to promote. > > On the other hand, a LGPL library that would allow easy usage of threads, > ringbuffers, etc would definatly benefit the project I'm doing. > > Somewhere on the GNU site I read a pretty good paragraph on "choosing the > right license", and basically it comes down to this: > if there's a commercial version of library X available, and an LGPL > alternative of X appears, it will promote the use of open libraries, and > hopefully the use of the library will improve it. > If an GPL version appears, it will be used in open-source software, but > most likely never be used in commercial / closed software solutions, and > hence its "publicity" and user-base will be smaller... > > (Overcame my dose of laziness: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html ) > > End of the day, I think respect for the authors work is the most important > thing, and I'd personally be slightly agitated if somebody emailed "Hey can > I take your efforts and make money without promising anything back?" as it > would imply that they don't want to respect the license that I'd chosen for > the efforts I'd done. > > Rant over I think :) -Harry >
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