Re: [Opensync-users] Libsyncml

[Eduardo P. H. <eha...@co...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:24:47PM +0200, Armin Bauer wrote:
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> Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
<snip>
> >
> >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.
> >
>=20
> thats true of course.
>=20
> 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)

I'm afraid the third option is the better one.

I doubt we would convince
the libwbxml developer (IIRC, I know people who have tried it, but I am
not sure if they really contacted him).

The second choice doesn't seem reasonable.

I don't like having to fork, and I would like to have a better choice,
but it seems we don't have a better one (except the first one, if we
manage to convince him :).

Anyway, I expect that the libwbxml author considered the risk of someone
doing this when he decided to change the license of libwbxml.

We have another option: write a wbxml library from scratch, but this
doesn't seem to make sense as we already have a LGPL library available.

>=20
> Any other possibilities?

I don't see any, unfortunately.

>=20
> Armin

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Eduardo