Re: [Opensync-users] Libsyncml

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:09, Armin Bauer wrote:
>
>>Ok, after i thought a bit about it and your persuasion work i changed
>>the license to LGPL. :)
>
>
> I think it's a good decision. I see a broad adoption as critical for the
> OpenSync project. If device vendors or other third party developers
> would be put off by the GPL, this would probably harm the project more
> than the missed opportunity to sell some licenses. I'm sure there are
> other ways to base a business model on OpenSync.
>
> One question though: You use libwbxml, which changed its license from
> LGPL to GPL. Is there a way around that? Because it would be pretty
> pointless to have a non-GLP libsyncml, if it still requires a GPL
> library.
>

thats true of course.

i see 3 possible solutions:
- persuade the developer of libwbxml to change back to LGPL :)
- dont change anything and live with it that we link against GPL
- create a fork from version 0.8.9 (the current version is 0.9.0). I
dont think that making the necessary changes to libwbxml would be too
hard. (Of course i would not like this option out of respect for the
developer of libwbxml)

Any other possibilities?

Armin