Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-07 Thread JohnF
David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are just confused. Pretty much all the time. -- John Forkosh ( mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] where j=john and f=forkosh ) ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-06 Thread JohnF
Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought I'd already acknowledged that class of problems in a preceding post in this thread (quoting myself) ... Of course, I do condemn big companies, like, sometimes, MicroSoft, when they try to dominate

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-05 Thread JohnF
Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: let the best program win. If the commercial application is truly better, maybe its superior functional specifications will inspire an open source knock off. It might, but it's predictable that the developer

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-05 Thread JohnF
David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hadn't thought of that. But, on second thought now, I'd say, let the best program win. If the commercial application is truly better, maybe its

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-05 Thread JohnF
Hyman Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnF wrote: But if I couldn't care less what you think, then what right do you have to tell me what to do with my own property? The only thing that makes it your property is the consensus of society that it benefits by putting its resources behind

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-04 Thread JohnF
David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing that's for sure is that he'll have to distribute MimeTex's source with the binary (or an offer to send people the source on request

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-02 Thread JohnF
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing that's for sure is that he'll have to distribute MimeTex's source with the binary (or an offer to send people the source on request). I'd thought a link to its homepage (where

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-01 Thread JohnF
Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, These cases are never black and white, and I don't know PocketCAS or MimeTex, so I can't give any advice on this situation, but here are some general ramblings anyway... Hi Ciaran, Sure. Some general ramblings are exactly what I was

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-30 Thread JohnF
JohnF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Encouraging contributions isn't usually a motivation to switch to LGPL. Writers of proprietary software will generally keep the most useful functionality in their application code (rather than in your library

LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-20 Thread JohnF
Looking for a discussion of the advantages/disadvantages/repercussions/anything else relevant of re-licensing my GPL'ed code www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html under the LGPL instead. I've received several (a handful, not a ton) of requests to do this, and have so far always just replied, No. I

Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-20 Thread JohnF
Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Encouraging contributions isn't usually a motivation to switch to LGPL. The writers of proprietary software will generally keep the most useful functionality in their application code (rather than in your library) and will contribute as little as