RE: AW: License proposal

Ive been reading through these posts and links regarding the issue of LGPL
and Java, and must admit to being more confused about the implications than
I was before I started. (Not to mention that I had until today thought LGPL
meant what people thought it meant (and still does for C from what I
gather)).

Does using an LGPL library/framework with a Java app require the user to
make their product LGPL???
Does it require them to allow their product to be reverse-engineered?

If so I would strongly recomend that you dont go LGPL.
While free software is great and all that (just like Mum and apple pie), I
would have thought it better that you allow people to also build proprietary
applications using Barracuda (like they can with Struts under the Apache
license). Imho it would be a "bad thing" for you to restrict your users to
creating only free (or reverse engineerable/modifiable) applications and
would certainly limit the popularity of Barracuda.

If not ignore the above ;-)

So what IS the story with LGPL?

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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Diez B. Roggisch
Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: AW: [Barracuda] License proposal


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> The only way to keep Barracuda truly free is by using the LGPL.  I think
we
> have to have clear reasons of why not to use it if we are to actually
> choose a license other than LGPL.

I agree with this - there's a lot of LGPLed java stuff out there that isn't
rendered useless by its license. I have no deeper insight into the
motivations of the apache-group, but I can imagine that they like the idea
of
having the opportunity to turn something into a commercial product - so
_they_ might have their troubles with LGPL.

So - as long as we don't want to be part of jakarta, I still opt for LGPL.

Diez
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