On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:40, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > The PURPOSE of CrossWire is to release free opensource code. A non-GPL > license issued to a publisher or Bible Society, as an exception, would > allow them to encorporate pieces of the project into their software > without making their software GPL. These are the types of things that > we cannot do currently if we rely upon other pieces of code (like our > regex implementation) that don't allow this.
LGPL will achieve this directly. Wrapping a CLI program ("engine") with a proprietary GUI will also achieve this with fully GPLed software. Cheers; Leon