Re: [glob2-devel] licence

[Bo Lorentsen]

MUNTEANU Olimpiu Andrei wrote:

> 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:

This is just what I hade about this issue, no real logic :-) I was 
thinking about LGPL as it gave freedom over the project, and its usage, 
without someone just took over the project and adds fixes and updates I 
could not enjoy ! I thought the linking problem only was related to GPL 
! I don't care about credit or pure GPL just plain freedom without any 
fuzz !

And then the simple "don't mess to much with my code, please" idea !

> 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

Hmm, ok !

> 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.

This sound like me, too :-)

> 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"

I just like the BSD licens :-) I am a full time Linux programmer !

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

Ahh, what I try to avoid :-) But ok, I quess I'll have to :-(

Thanks for input.

/BL