On 12/5/06, Joe Simms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi David > > Thanks for your response. It was very insightful. Just one note: > > > Yes, I wish that would be made clearer. In fact, I get the impression > > that many users believe Propel and Creole are symfony sub-projects, > > since nowhere does it clearly state the origin of Propel and Creole - > > which is just one of many of symfony's unfortunate license violations > > :( > > Could you please be more precise here, so that we can correct this. > Or even better let us know how we can correct this.
Sure :) I'll do that in my reply to Fabien's email. > >> I think Propel were considering releasing 2.0 as MIT, and i asked the > >> project lead for Doctrine if they would release as MIT, but not too > >> sure they liked the idea as it lacks protection. Having had this > >> conversation with my client, it has become a bit of an issue for me, > >> and i think that as symfony is becoming a player in the framework > >> arena it may be able to request that these libraries be released > >> under MIT for official integration with 1.0, but that maybe pushing > >> our luck and not possible. > > > > That's not going to happen in case of Propel and Creole, sorry. > > That's a shame, but totally understandable. Well we decided that Propel should remain LGPL. We think it is a fair balance between liberty and obligation. The idea is that whenever someone makes modifications to the core of Propel, there must be a reason, and with the LGPL, people are far more likely to step forward and suggest a change because otherwise, they'd have to release their source code because of these modifications. Anyway, for the reasons described in my earlier posting, it's not really an issue for symfony, or anyone who would want to build a commercial project, because the LGPL is "compatible" with other licenses as soon as you don't modify the library directly, which is not the case with symfony. So you're safe :) Cheers, David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
