Yeah I certainly don't disagree with that. Of course all contributions to date are LGPL anyway, so no problem there.
Bill. 2008/11/16 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
