From: Inderjeet S. <ind...@gm...> - 2009-10-04 22:44:50
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Any takers for starting a XMLVM compatible library (for Java classes) under an Apache style license hosted at code.google.com? I will be happy to contribute some code seeding it. Thanks Inder On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Wolfgang Korn <wol...@xm...> wrote: > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > now! > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > > _______________________________________________ > > xmlvm-users mailing list > > xml...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmlvm-users > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > xmlvm-users mailing list > xml...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmlvm-users > |