RE: AW: License proposal

Barr Bill P <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:22:16 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
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>That said, I could see products (like IDE plugins) built on _top_ of
Barracuda, and I think that is completely valid. Whatever license we come up
with needs to support that notion (and I _think_ LGPL does, but we do need
to clarify).

LGPL, BSD and Apache licenses do support that notion. GPL does not. That's
why the Apache-style license has been so popular with software vendors
foraying into this field. They don't need to co-release proprietary source
or extensions if they don't want to.