Re: [xmlvm-users] Licence issues

[Inderjeet S. <ind...@gm...>]

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
> >
> >
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