[bddbddb-devel] bddbddb license change

[John W. <joe...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Ben was asking if it is OK to switch the license for bddbddb to a more
permissive license.  The issue is the LGPL is a viral license and
presents too much of a risk for some companies.  Politics aside, I am
open to the idea of changing the license to the Common Public License
(CPL), the same license that Eclipse is distributed under, as well as
Microsoft WiX (Windows Installer), WTL (Windows Template Library) and
many, many other open-source projects.  CPL is OSI-approved and the
project would stay as open source, it just doesn't have the viral
aspect or the Stallman politics.

Here is some info about CPL:
   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cplfaq.html

Since all of you have contributed at some point to the bddbddb source,
is it OK for your contributions to be licensed under CPL?  Please let
me know.  Also if I missed any contributors please let me know.

-John


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Whaley <joe...@gm...>
Date: Jun 20, 2007 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: bddbddb
To: Ben Livshits <liv...@mi...>


Hi Ben,

How's MSR?  I have no problem releasing under e.g. CPL like Eclipse.
Just need to contact and ask the contributors if they are OK with it.
The major contributors are you, Mike Carbin, Michael Martin, Chris
Unkel, and Dzin.  I assume you're OK with it.  Mike Carbin is at MSR
this summer so maybe you'll run into him.  I'll email Michael, Chris,
and Dzin and see if they are OK with it.  Once we hear back we can
switch the license to something more permissive.

-John


On 6/20/07, Ben Livshits <liv...@mi...> wrote:
> Hi John. I hope things are going well at Moka5.
>
> I was contemplating using bddbddb for some analysis projects I was starting to work on at MSR. Would you consider releasing it under a more permissive license like MPL or Apache?
>
> I am sure there are also project dependencies to worry about, but I thought I'd ask about the main project.
>
> Cheers,
> -Ben
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