License proposal

"Christian Cryder" <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:19:57 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi folks,

Ok, I've heard back from most of the contributors, and all are willing to
change the license. The question now becomes: what license should we change
it to?

We've discussed this a bit in the past, and I think there was a fair amount
of consensus that something like LGPL would be best. In addition, in order
to host our project on ObjectWeb we need to be LGPL.

SO...I'd like to propose that at a minimum we switch the license to LGPL.
Are there any significant reasons NOT to do this?

Second, we might also want to consider a dual license - if we ever think we
will need to also support another license, now's the time to change it. I
had originally been thinking that we might want to also license the source
under a BSD style license (ie. in case we ever get the opportunity to set up
a portal on Jakarta or something like that). However, after discussions with
a number of individuals, I'm not really sure that is worth pursuing at this
point. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

I guess what I'm leaning towards at this point is simply switching the
license to LGPL and calling it good. If you have any thoughts, now's the
time to comment...

Christian
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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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