Re: [glob2-devel] licence

[MUNTEANU Olimpiu Andrei]

Bo Lorentsen wrote:

> God point, but I don't plan to :-) The project is free, and I work at 
> making TEA as easy to use and read as possible, but bad things could 
> happened.
>
> But, we all have to start sometimes, and if we don't do things 
> different, how can we be better ?
I agree...

> > * License.  TEA currently has no license information on it.  Does that
> >  make it public domain?  I'm not sure.  Any language will need to be
> >  GPL-compatible anyway.
> >  
> Sorry about that. I plan for either LGPL or BSD, or whatever license 
> that don't take up 40 lines of every source file ... I just hate that. 
> The top of the source file is for nice comments about the 
> functionality ! It is an absolutely free project, and will remain that 
> way, as I don't see the point in doing otherwise for a core language, 
> like TEA. I just like any code changes to stay in the project, but 
> otherwise I will not put restrictions on its usage (I use it 
> professionally in a non GPL project, myself)
>
> Let me know if You have some insight into this license subject, as I 
> am not very knowledgeable in this regard. I too have a tendency to 
> ignore things that is not LGPL or BSD (or apache), but I have not 
> studied the subject closely and have no plan doing so in the future.


Well, let me make some history...  There is the gpl licence you can use 
for end-user programs and very used software that you dont want 
Microsoft to use to make a proprietary operatig systems and then knock 
you out with patents and threats, using your own work....

LGPL will alow you to dynamicaly link your "library" to your  program, 
and at the same time protect your library from somebody else. However it 
may restrict you for staticaly linked software non-GPL-compatible.  If 
you don't want LGPL or double-licence (GPL - proprietary, witch is hard 
to manage), you can choose at your own risk (but the risk is not hight 
in this case) some of this completly free, "non-copyleft" licences:

DON'T use those , because ALL of them are GPL-incompatible and 
Globulation2 is GPLed:
DON'T use Apache1.0, Apache1.1, Apache2.0
DON'T use  any other Apache licence. 
DON'T use  the Original BSD license 
<http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#6>
DON'T use  the XFree86 1.1 licence


YOU CAN USE:     Modified BSD license 
<http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#5>: This is the original 
BSD license, modified by removal of the advertising clause. It is a 
simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with 
the GNU GPL.
YOU CAN USE: The X11 original 1.0 licence
YOU CAN USE: The Expat Licence ( MIT License )
YOU CAN USE:  License of ZLib <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html>

If you like BSD, I sugest you use the modified BSD licence, that most 
new projects use this days when choosing "the BSD licence"

you can read more here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html 
about compatibility