Re: Luxor Licensing

This was not a response to the licensing of luxor, just clarification to
Michael, what the consequences for him are, since he said he was
confused.
My statements are correct for software that he creates if he uses GPL in
his software or apache style licenses (ehh BSD style).

No FUD against you. You are doing a great job. 

Mvgr,
Martin


On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 19:25, Gerald Bauer wrote:
> Servus Martin,
> 
> > Just some clarification on how licenses work (for
> > Gerald: this is just
> > an outline what I learned during apache licensing
> > discussions, I am not
> > trying to say in any way that your are not
> > complying, just a disclaimer
> > ;)
> 
>   I think we had this discussion before and I ask you
> to stop spreading misinformation and fuel the GPL FUD
> campaign. 
> 
>   I'm the copyright owner of Luxor and, therefore, can
> hardly infringe on my own copyright, can't I?
> 
>   Anyway, if you want to be taken serious, please back
> up your arguments with references to trusted sources. 
> 
>  
>   Also if you want to lobby for switching Luxor over
> to a free-for-all Apache-style license I suggest that
> you first build up your credibility by contributing.
> 
> > If you use a java GPL library in your software (eg
> > do an import of a java class), you will need to make
> 
> > your complete software package GPL.
> 
>   Again, that's not true. As I'm the copyright owner I
> can use whatever libraries I want without infringing
> my own copyright. I'm hardly going to sue myself.
> 
>   - Gerald
> 
> 
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