We had a long discussion about this several months ago, and as a result, the license was changed from GPL (with commercial exception) to LGPL. I think the idea was that LGPL should allow usage of the framework along with apps and libraries of any license type while prohibiting any closed source/commercial forks of web2py (which MIT would allow). Anthony
On Thursday, June 30, 2011 5:52:12 AM UTC-4, elffikk wrote: > here is an interesting article about source code licenses > http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/07/source_code_lic_1.html > > the author in summary says > > "I would strongly encourage developers to release shared code under > the MIT license." > and > "I would also encourage developers to petition the owners of their > favourite shared libraries to change their licensing to MIT, if they > haven’t already." > > so my question: why not releasing under MIT license or under dual > license (as jquery) ?
