On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been doing some thinking about licensing and what I personally > really care about. > > I realise there are only four things that really matter to me: > > 1) That my copyright notice be maintained. > 2) That any offer to redistribute in binary form is accompanied by an > equal offer to redistribute in source form (the code should always be > open in the academic sense - open for study, open for verification). > 3) That redistribution of the code in binary or source form as part of > any closed source packages is prohibited without my explicit written > permission. > 4) Redistribution with modification is allowed (subject to terms 1-3). > > (Just to clarify, I'm not hereby relicensing any of my previously > written code with the above conditions, I'm merely thinking about > finding a license of that kind for my future work.) > > Does anyone know of a license similar to that? > > It's more permissive than the GPL as commercial use is permitted as > long as I have given explicit permission. It would also get right > around the whole v2/v3 and LGPL/GPL debates. > > The interesting thing is, were I to contribute code to eMPIRe under > such a license the overall license would be more permissive than GPL > and less permissive than LGPL. > > This would obviate the need for having two different versions of > eMPIRe. > > Does anyone have any comments on this? Am I missing something > important? >
I think the simple fact is that in the short term eMPIRe will have to be LGPLv2+ to have a reasonable chance to compete with GMP. I don't really see any way around that in the _short term_. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
