Re: [OpenBabel-Devel] Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA)

[Michael B. <mb...@gm...>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:33:03AM -0700, Craig A. James wrote:
> OpenEye's stance merely illustrates what can go wrong.  With as many
> authors as OB has, sooner or later one will die, or disappear from the
> community.  At that point, that person's code becomes "frozen" if an
> FLA isn't in place.

It won't if we license OpenBabel on a GPL/LGPL "or later" code.

However, if we go the road of reimplementing/eliminating all the OE
code, we should make sure at the same time that all the other
contributors in the past would be fine with a difference license.


Michael