Re: [CLucene-dev] Re: license (clarification)

[Ben v. K. <be...@vi...>]

OK, I think i'm beginning to understand the issues behind licensing
opensource... what a hassle.
To me, flexibility and unhindered use of clucene is important. In my
understanding, that is what
LGPL is (unhindered use) - (though it seems that i am wrong!). I too started
off on GPL, as that
was the "suggested" license on sourceforge. I now understand that GPL is too
restrictive, but why
change to Apache? So Doug, it seems like i went through the same rigmarole
as you. Selecting GPL
without to much thought, going to LGPL, now to Apache... I have no political
agenda when it comes
to clucene, so if you (doug) think that is what people want then i see no
harm in it.

Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Cutting <cu...@lu...>
To: <clu...@li...>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: [CLucene-dev] Re: license (clarification)


> Max Khesin wrote:
> > Doug? What do you think?
>
> I hate dealing licensing issues, but they are important.
>
> This is Ben's decision, as he's written the clucene code.
>
> Some tips:
>    - One should be careful about who copyright is assigned to, as only
> that party can change the copyright and license.  So once you assign the
> copyright to the Apache Foundation, or the FSF, you cannot change it.  I
> couldn't find any copyright statements in the CLucene code.  It's
> probably a good idea to add one to each file.
>    - If you use GPL or LGPL then folks (like Max) will complain
> endlessly.  I initially selected GPL for Lucene without thinking much
> about it.  Folks complained and I switched to LGPL.  They complained
> less, but still complained.  With the move to Apache the complaints
> stopped.  So, if your interest, like mine, is in developing code that
> folks will just use, then Apache will save you some hassle dealing with
> compaliners.  But, depending on your free software political agenda,
> this may not be acceptable to you.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
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