On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 01:51, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > 1) We will continue to accept only code that's licensed under a BSD- > > style (no advertising clause) license, or LGPL 2.1, or other > > compatible license. We don't want to accept code that's LGPL 3 only, > > as that would make the whole project LGPL 3. > > I think continuing to require "LGPL 2 or later" would be the most sane and > most compatible.
Accepting LGPL 3 only code is not something we should do, as it would lead to more restrict licensing terms than we currently have. > > 2) We'd like to change the copyright notices from their current mix of > > "LGPL 2 or any later version" and "LGPL 2.1 or any later version" to > > just LGPL 2.1, to make this clear. This one is maybe more debatable, > > so I'd like to know if anyone objects. It would prevent incorporating > > WebKit code into LGPL 3 projects, and would require sign-off from all > > copyright holders to ever change to a different LGPL version in the > > future (in case the FSF came out with a version 3.1 or 4 that solved > > some of the problems with v3). > > I object. I would like to reserve the right to integrate WebKit with LGPL 3 > projects like future KDE libs. > > Though since we are talking LGPL the linking-issues are not that > problematic, it would still make it easier if the project continued to > include the "or later" clause. I have to agree with Allan. Restricting it to 2.1 only might give open source projects (KDE being one of them) problems in the future. I don't see a need to change the license to become more restrictive than it has been in the past. As a sidenote, since we're already talking about licensing: I don't quite see the benefits of having a mix of BSD and LGPL licenses. LGPL is more restrictive, so that one applies to the project as a whole anyways. Wouldn't it be easier to just have one license (LGPL 2.1 or later) for the complete code base? Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev