Re: [xmlvm-users] Licence issues

[Wolfgang K. <wol...@xm...>]

We carefully decided to put our project under GPL. And there have
already been some discussions on the mailing list concerning this topic.

Usually people are having problems with the GPL if they want to build
software which is not open source - mostly because they want to do
commercial apps and want to make money out of it. There is nothing wrong
with writing commercial apps based on open source tools. But our point
of view is, that in such a case something has to be given back to the
open source community. In our case we want to be given something back
which helps us to further improve our project. This can be monetary
funding or hardware sponsoring as well as providing a significant
contribution to the project. In turn we provide something called a
linking exception, which allows you to use XMLVM without putting your
project under GPL as well.

-- Wolfgang


Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I am thinking, why this tool-chain/library is under the GPL License,  
> and not something more appropriate for a library, such as LGPL or BSD?
>
> I have this question since usually such tools have a more relaxed  
> license, on who is linking on what.
>
> Thanks
>
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