Re: [tinyTiM-discuss] Apache License for tinyTiM?

[Stefan L. <li...@ap...>]

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Hi,

No i don't mind moving tinyTIM to ALv2, its you who is in charge right now, so i go with you.

Stefan

Lars Heuer wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> [...]
>> Im not very into this licensing stuff. but i googled and found that
>> apache v2 is compatible with LGPL
> 
>> see
>> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
> 
> Yes, found that too, but I am not sure if the same is true for LGPL.
> They speak about "GPL", especially about v3, but LGPL is not
> mentioned.
> 
> To avoid all that licensing stuff, would you mind if tinyTiM moves to
> Apache License 2? As Markus has mentioned, the LGPL vs. ALv2 stuff
> seems to be very vague and each party has a different opinion.
> 
> In particular, I am interested in a better URI / IRI handling and
> currently I extract an IRI implementation from a project that uses
> ALv2. So, the extracted lib would also use ALv2 and that lib I want to
> use for tinyTiM.
> 
> I tried to implement my own URI normalizer and it worked so far, but
> handling the whole *IRI* stuff requires more work (Unicode, Punycode
> bla bla).
> 
> Best regards,
> Lars



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