Re: [Wttools-devel] Licence change

[Artur H. <wis...@wp...>]

On Sunday 07 October 2001 05:14 am, you wrote:
> Hi Arthur,
>
> How will this affect us? I have no idea about these License issues, Could
> you please elaborate on this and tell us how to handle this...? Do you mean
> that there will be two code branches one for GPL and the other one for
> LGPL?

I general there is only one difference between GPL and LGPL licence.
GPL licence said that if you use GPL'ed  code in your software than your
software also must be OpenSource GPL, free (no charge) code but

LGPL licence allow to use code (library for example) in your software and
there is no necessary to make your application also open source, gpl.
You application can be fully commercial and expensive software.

In consequence if we choosing LGPL licence we can have more users
of our library. (Also commercial companies would use it).

In general i recomend to use LGPL for libraries and GPL for
applications.

Artur Hefczyc