[Squirrel-SQL-announce] New licence for SQuirreL SQL Client

[Colin B. <col...@bi...>]

In version 1.1beta2 of SQuirreL SQL Client the 
licence will be changed from the GPL to the 
LGPL. because of the "viral" nature of the 
GPL. In SQuirreL SQL Client version 1.0 it 
wasn't an issue but in version 1.1 with the 
addition of plugins it has become one. 

My intention with plugins was not to force a 
particular licence on the developer. I intended 
that the plugin developer could release their 
plugin under any licence they wanted although 
only those under an OSI recognized open source 
licence could be released through the SQuirreL 
project on SourceForge (because of SourceForge 
rules). However according to the FAQ on the FSF 
site http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins 
the viral nature of the GPL means that all 
plugins have to be released under a GPL 
compatible licence. 

In order to give "freedom of choice" to the 
plugin developers the client program will now be 
released under the LGPL.