Re: [binarycloud-dev] LGPL

[Benjamin D. S. <be...@be...>]

BTW - I make extensive use of the PHPLIB libraries, and they are LGPL as 
well. 

-Ben 

On Wednesday 13 June 2001 23:27, you wrote:
> > Seems the best way to go. You want to make the application development
> > environment (BC) as free as possible, but you don't want to make
>
> developers
>
> > release the applications developed herewith released under the same
> > freedom/restrictions.
>
> Correct. (given that I am in that business, I agree! :)
>
> > If this were straight-up GPL, I would be unable to use it. On the other
>
> hand,
>
> > as LGPL, I could use it, develop the applications my customers need, and
> > still be likely to contribute to the part that benefits you.  (the BC
> > environment itself)
>
> Yep. I encourage people to think of how they can generalize their
> components, so we can include them in the distro. The more the better, as
> far as I am concerned.
>
> > IMHO, GPL-type licensing applies best to infrastructure - the specific
> > application of that infrastructure to solve a specific problem is
>
> generally
>
> > best a more proprietary license.
>
> Depends on the software, but _usually_ I agree with that statement. I think
> it is reasonable to classify binarycloud as infrastructure software (that
> and I have that on my company website :)
>
> _alex
>
>
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