Re: [Playerstage-developers] LGPL for all but drivers and utilities

[Richard v. <va...@cs...>]

I hereby grant permission for all of my contributions to the Player  
core libraries, excluding libplayerdrivers, to be licensed under the  
LGPL.

Note that this does not include any part of the Stage package, nor  
any of <player source>/utils .

I want to point out that the LGPL allows anyone to re-license the  
library or any component as GPL at any time. So you can use any part  
of the Player code in your GPL code without inheriting the LGPL - but  
*make sure you explicitly change the license before you distribute*.

I also want to encourage people to use the LGPL sparingly, if at all.  
Read this to see why:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

In particular I wish to see the Player driver collection stay GPL.  
Our driver library is a key community resource.

Richard Vaughan.

On 22-May-07, at 6:13 PM, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:

> Brian Gerkey wrote:
>> That's the result of vestigial cut-n-paste, and should be fixed.  In
>> my recollection, Toby and I wrote 95% of the 2.0 core libs, with
>> leftover bits from Andrew and Richard, and substantial contributions
>> from Geoff.
>
> Oh, well in that case, I grant permission for all of my  
> contributions to
> the Player core libraries, excluding libplayerdrivers, to be licensed
> under the LGPL.
>
> Geoff
>
>
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