Re: Cortado license

Thanks for that Basil.

When I say "embed" I mean take the meat of the code and remove the fact that it is an actual applet and then put that meat inside the wrapper of our own applet. The only real change to the source would be to extract the meat and any necessary changes in passing in applet arguments.

So actually there may not be any actual "changes" to the source, only an extraction and usage of the core functionality.

-JCT

On Wed Feb 17 17:24 , Basil Mohamed Gohar sent:

On 02/17/2010 04:57 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Why does Cortado use the restrictive GPL license instead of the

> friendlier LGPL? We would like to embed Cortado functionality into

> our own applet but not have to distribute the full source code of our

> applet.

>

> Is there any room for making Cortado use LGPL instead (now that Xiph

> are in control of it) or are there possibilities for class path

> exceptions or special licenses?

>

> -JCT

Cortado was originally written by Fluendo, and they apparently chose the

GPL as the license to release their code. Xiph has taken over

maintenance of the project, but that doesn't mean they necessarily own

all the code inside the project, so it cannot just be converted over in

one piece to the LGPL.

That may not be necessary - when you say embed, what do you mean,

exactly? I don't know the legal ramifications, but depending on your

usage, you may still be able to do what you want to do without violating

the GPL.

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