Re: Lost in licensing - is the following strategy water-proof?

[Alexander Terekhov]

Hendrik Belitz wrote:
[...]
> 
> Nevertheless, thanks to you guys who provided me with some useful
> answers. Alexander, your link was pretty informative, but the author
> also states several times that he is not quite sure whether his
> viewpoint on software combinations is fully correct w.r.t. the GNU
> licensing policy. 

That's because the GNU licensing policy is basically

     what's yours is ours, what's mine is mine, would you please
     fill out the copyright assignment form vielen Dank.

>                    I also read through the GPL FAQ behind the link

Read also

http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf

> provided to me by Alfred, which was also rather interesting and
> assisted me in deciding whether to use LGPL or BSD licensing in my
> particular case. I think I'll stick to the BSD mod-3-term then...

I suggest you stick to the AFL[1] or Lucent Public License[2], then. 

See

http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch09.pdf

and

http://osdir.com/ml/licenses.open-source.general/2004-02/msg00111.html

regards,
alexander.

[1] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/academic.php

[2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lucent1.02.php

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