Licence change

[Dair G. <da...@re...>]

Hi,

I turned off mail notification to quesa-cvs while doing the check-in, as
it involved touching almost every file, however the license change for
Quesa is now complete.

Quesa is now available under a BSD licence, which is available at:

  Documentation/reference/licence.html

This has been discussed off- and on-list for a while amongst the
steering group, and we all feel it will be for the benefit of the
project.


The reason for the change is purely an aspect of the LGPL which I missed
at the time of choosing it. Namely that if you linked statically, in
theory your users need to be able to make a change to the library and
re-link your app, and so you end up having to (in theory) distribute the
object code for your app to make this possible.

In practice this problem was entirely theoretical, as it would never
have been a problem for people to link Quesa statically. But the licence
now reflects this, and ensures you can use Quesa in whatever form
(static, dynamic, the whole thing or just a couple of functions) makes
sense for you.


The downside for the project is that you're no longer compelled to
return your changes to the library.

I don't think this will be a significant problem, as any significant
modifications will end up being submitted anyway simply to reduce the
work of merging.


-dair (I've fixed up all of our references, and will update SourceForge,
but if you happen across any links that say LGPL please let me know so
we can update them)
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