Re: licence issues
Markus Elfring <[email protected]> Mon, 21 May 2007 20:16:43 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.documentation.synopsis |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> The Keystone parser is distributed under GPL. We had an extensive discussion > about licenses on the OpenC++ list, and people where upset about me distributing > Synopsis under LGPL, because, apparently, it makes it hard to use Synopsis code > with proprietary extensions. LGPL simply requires the covered library to be > exchangable / upgradable in-vito, but GPL requires the entirety of the application > to be freely distributable. Can we convince any software developers to switch to the Boost licence or the "GNU General Public License with runtime exception" (RGPL) to support wider use of their template libraries? Regards, Markus