From: Chad Z. H. a. K. <Chad@Hower.org> - 2007-08-28 23:05:26
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> The operable question being what goal is the selected license covering? > Or are we selecting LGPL / GPL simply because it's the most popular OSS > license? I cannot agree with using GPL, again not without a linking > clause. LGPL, for all intents, covers this. The "kernel", runtime, > scheduler, driver framework, etc all would be LGPL, allowing for binary > closed-source drivers and other apps. Again, personally I would rather > go for BSD. But I can understand where people want to force things to > remain open source and attributable. Thus the necessity of commercial > dual-licensing. > > So what is GPL covering that LGPL doesn't, in terms of a microkernel > architecture? +1 on all this - esp the part about GPL. |