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Re: [xmlvm-users] Licence issues
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From: Kevin G. <ke...@co...> - 2009-10-05 07:12:16
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Fragmenting a community that is so fledging would be the best way to kill any open source project. There is a route to a more permissive license, i.e. the GPL with linking exception, if you're prepared to make a contribution to project. If you were going to do the work to produce a XMLVM compatible compatibility library as a separate library (you'd need Java classes and the Cocoa framework to make it useable for anything) then why not spend this effort on contributing into the XMLVM compatibility library there by getting a linking exception license? Kev 2009/10/4 Inderjeet Singh <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 >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > |
