Re: [Swig-dev] Re: [swig#] Re: [Introspector-swigsharp] Re: AW: SWIG Csharp module
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From: James M. D. <mdu...@ya...> - 2003-01-31 18:51:32
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--- David Beazley <be...@cs...> wrote: > James Michael DuPont writes: > > > > Also, is the lack of a GPL license on SWIG really a problem? I > don't > > > want to change the current license and don't see why this is an > issue > > > (there's no restriction on the SWIG license that prevents it > from > > > being used as part of another project). > > > > The GPL is not a problem. I am not a lawyer, and when requesting > the > > project, i did not know if your license was BSD or not, I do know > that > > it looked like it could be converted to GPL, so I did. > > > > I would like to have a disjuct GPL, all of the modules that I want > to > > link to the introspector should be GPL, but I dont have a problem > in > > licensing the changes back to you under your license. That would > be the > > best of both worlds. > > > > At least we can choose to link it into the gcc on the GPL and > others > > can use it under BSD as well. > > Okay. My primary concern is that I don't want SWIG to branch into a > non-GPL and a GPL version. Incorporating GPL code back into SWIG is > also an issue due to the BSD-style licensing. However, I'm not a > lawyer either so this isn't my area of speciality. Mostly, I just > want to do whatever requires the least effort ;-). Me too. If the authors and the contributors dont mind we can do that. Dual licensing is normal since larry wall invented the Artistic license. > > > If you want to give use CVS access and a place to put these > changes, > > then we dont need to do any extra work. I have now a subproject on > > sourceforge, and a specific site on savannah. It would not be bad > to > > keep the savannah site so that the DOTGNU specific changes could > be > > hosted. > > > > Let me try to find out what's going on with the SWIG C# module(s). > I've been a little disorganized with teaching lately and there seem > to > be several different versions of this module floating around. Maybe > the guilty parties can jump in here and give an update. I have heard from two authors : One <and...@in...> has a older patch, and the other guy Niel started with the java patch and has modified it. we have all the people ready to go, and just need a statement on you. please just give us your blessing to host the code on savannah, and put the changes under the gpl for now. When it all works we can post it back to you as BSD. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com |