Re: [wxCode-users] Monthly status report

[Ryan N. <wxp...@co...>]

Hi,

>
>>> 8 - I really think this should be something like wxWidgets or 
>>> something
>>> compatable and less restrictive
>> This is just to discourage GPL'd stuff. The wording should be
>> something like, "a license as or more liberal than the wxWindows
>> license." But, we don't want to start flame wars about meaning of the
>> word "liberal" or "restrictive". Either that or just list the
>> acceptable ones, BSD, MIT, zlib/libpng ... but I think that'd create
>> more questions than give answers.
>> I just checked here
>> (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows.php), looking at ones I
>> though would work, but it's tough to fully understand them and it'll
>> make it unecessarily complicated if it's a free for all. Eventually
>> components may start to rely on other components and because of this,
>> they need to be compatible.
>> Take this one for example, it looks good at first, but has a few
>> gotch-ya's, whose rammifictaions are not immediately clear.
>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
>> How about this:
>> "Each component must be submitted under the wxWindows license or a
>> license that is compatible and less restrictive, such as the BSD, MIT,
>> and zlib/libpng."
> Maybe this is the best.
>
> I wrote that any component should use the "wxWidgets" license only 
> because wx developers told me that an important point in moving 
> contrib stuff to wxCode is that all the sources at wxCode must be 
> easily integrable in wxWidgets, eventually.
> So wxWidgets-license should be used for the components that hope to be 
> integrated in wx...
> however, I do understand that many other components are not designed 
> to be integrated in wx at all ... so using a license different from 
> wxWidgets one is okay...
>
> Francesco

Or, a different idea - something along the lines of "it must be 
available under the wxWidgets license"... i.e. give them permission to 
dual-license it or whatever... that way we don't have to deal with 
compatability issues etc..

Also remember that the original BSD license had the advertising clause 
and would be unacceptable

Ryan