>>>>> "IM" == Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:41:07 -0500, Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Uri> thanx for the vote. see my other post for the news that i am in the Uri> process of GPL'ing it. IM> Talking about licenses: is it really good idea to use GPL in P5EE? IM> Why not Artistic (like Perl itself) or at least LGPL? GPL is hardly IM> acceptable if P5EE is supposed to be used in commercial projects. IM> If I understand licensing correctly if any core P5EE library is GPL it IM> forces GPL for any application built upon P5EE. the GPL does not force anything to be GPL if it uses GPL. it just forces releasing the source for free if it uses GPL code. you can always sell the system as long as it comes with (or the customer can get) the source. so if p5ee were all GPL it could be used by a project if that project were to release its source. you can still sell (an enhanced) emacs if you give out the source. one major issue you should be more aware of now is who copyrights the source. if you get copyrights from multiple people then you don't have easy control over changing the license. one thing i have learned from others is that all stem code will be copyrighted by stem systems. then we can sell third party commercial licenses without any issues. bradley kuhn (vp and license guru) of fsf accepts this use. you release the code to the general public under the GPL and sell commercial licenses to paying customers so they can resell it or whatever. sleepycat and mysql do this type of open and commercial licensing. so my question for p5ee, is who will own/copyright this code? is there an independent group or compnay that can own it? will all contributors be willing to sign over copyrights to the group? perl6/parrot has the same requirement. all newly developed code is copyrighted by YAS (yetanother.org) so that group can control the license. just my $.02 and IANAL, uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com -- Stem is an Open Source Network Development Toolkit and Application Suite - ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
