Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthew Soffen wrote: >> I don't see it being any problem. >> Is there any "convention" that other projects use ? > > > Not that I know of. I just thought this might make things clearer to > those who want to link to our libraries - which ones are under which > license.
I think changing the library names to distinct its license is not so common, and I feel a bit uncomfortable... Other options came up to my mind are: 1. Clearly note somewhere on a document, probably in "Exceptions" section on http://linux-ha.org/FileCopyrightPolicy . It needs less work, but users tend to miss it, and documents tend to be out of date:-) 2. Separate the directories for LGPL and others in the source tree. Only LGPL files (that conform to the project policy) should be put into lib/ directory, and for other directories it depends on each module or developer. For example, GPL'ed lib/crm might be in, say crm/lib, and when the developer decide to change some of the functions to be LGPL, he may want to move those into lib/ directory with the new license statement. Users who concern the license just need to check if it's in lib/ directory. They don't have to look through all the source code in the tree. 3. Separate RPM package for LGPL libraries, say heartbeat-lib-*.rpm, which is intended to be used by users as to the project policy. Users who concern the license should only use the libraries in this RPM. A problem would be, because the lib rpm is always required, all users have to do extra steps to download and install. I personally think that 2. is clear enough and good for developers, although I'm not sure how big the impact is for the library in question. I hope it helps. BTW, if this topic came up from my post about the license, it is not an urgent issue for me. sorry if I confused you. Thanks, Keisuke MORI NTT DATA Intellilink Corporation _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
