RE: open source license question

Yeah, that's kinda been my thinking.  I just wasn't sure if I was missing
anything seeing as I'm not a lawyer.

--- Daniel Leuck <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alexey,
> 
> Open source licensing discussions often spiral into religious wars, but here
> is my take - I usually use LGPL for projects because it allows the code to
> be used and enhanced by a wider audience (people working on commercial
> software.)  I don't necessarily care if people using my library are writing
> unrelated code under a different license, and I don't particularly like the
> GPLs purist approach.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel Leuck
> Ikayzo
> http://www.ikayzo.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: beanshell-developers-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org [mailto:beanshell-
> > developers-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Alexey Zinger
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:57 AM
> > To: beanshell-developers-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> > Subject: [Beanshell-dev] open source license question
> > 
> > This is directed to anyone who's had some experience with licensing OS
> > software, particularly BeanShell-based.  I've been working on and off on a
> > personal project of mine -- a Java spreadsheet, which uses BeanShell for
> > expression evaluation.  I originally licensed it under GPL and it hasn't
> > been
> > an issue, but I've always gone back and forth in my mind whether it should
> > be
> > LGPL, like BeanShell itself.
> > 
> > I suppose the logical question to ask is what the intentions are behind
> > the
> > project.  I'm not trying to create a hit, though if some consulting came
> > out of
> > it, or I was able to leverage it at work, as I have in the past, I
> > wouldn't
> > have a problem with it.  It basically grew out of some of my own
> tinkering,
> > as
> > many such projects do I'm sure.  Once I saw significant advantages to it,
> > I
> > decided to put it out-there, as much to make it useful for others as to
> > let it
> > be hosted somewhere where I didn't have to worry it, so I put it on
> > Sourceforge
> > under GPL.
> > 
> > At this time, I'm gearing up to sneak in a few bug fixes and some missing
> > features and call it an honest 1.0 relese.  Seems like a good time to
> > revisit
> > the license question.  Any recommendations?
> > 
> > Alexey
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> > 
> > 
> > 
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Alexey
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