On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:58:19PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:26:33PM -0500, Ranando King wrote: > > Jeroen, > > > > Put simply, there are those of us who have long standing issues with GPL > > licensing. Now whether or not those issues have any merit is another story > > altogether. It wouldn't be such a wise move to risk alienating people who > > are not comfortable with the GPL but are willing to code for plex86 under > > its present licensing. At present, plex86 is suffering from a severe lack of > > direction. The licensing issue should not really be a concern at present. > > It's LGPL which is close enough to the GPL to satisfy the "free software" > > status that you are looking for while at the same time remaining "open" > > enough to keep those of us who aren't comfortable with the GPL happy and > > programming. > > The problem is that we can't use GPL'd code now, code that might be > usable for us.
Hmm, this thread was about making plex86 a GNU project. Being under the LGPL isn't a big problem for that AFAIK. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
