Re: Re[2]: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Fwd: Re: Optimus in Gobo

[Christian C. <chr...@tu...>]

Lothar Scholz wrote :
>
> AL> This is a very good idea. Whether the GPL is a good license or not, it
> AL> is _the_ free software license out there. Making EFL compatible with the
> AL> GPL would be very important IMO.
>
> GPL is not a good license if you must make a living from your software
> development.

This is very debattable. See Qt, Mysql or CodeSourcery for example.
Anyway, double licensing when needed is perhaps a good idea.

> EFL is incompatible to GPL.

It seems so, unfortunately, though it is not very clear.

I don't understand why the Expat license for example
(http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt) is GPL compatible and the EFL is not.

I think we should anyway try to have an official listing of the EFL on the 
GNU page, even if it results in the EFL being listed as incompatible with the 
GPL. A bad listing is better than no listing because at least we know what's 
the problem.

[...]

> So forget about the Optimus library (its only 200 lines of code).

It's easy, at least for me, to forget about it. It's just difficult to forget 
why exactly I should forget.

Regards,
Christian.