Re: Re: Pragmatic License Vote

>  The main reason we postponed the license vote is that we are trying to get some 
> clarification on licensing issues from some of the organizations that developed 
> these licenses. Our main goal is to make Pragmatic as free as and as open 
> source as possible. We want to encourage both OS and commercial work. Finding 
> a license that allows this in a realistic way is difficult. In a few cases the licenses 
> that cover both cases well are incompatable with the GPL. For a language this is a 
> bad thing becuase then those developers that wish to create GPLed works in 
> Pragmatic would not be able to use any of the Pragmatic libs. Obviously we want 
> to encourage use is as many areas and under as many licenses as possible. 

	Essencially the issues are:

	1) Some OS purists will not accept anything that is not 100% GPL compatible

	2) GPL basically disallows anything except straight pure OS

	3) For reason 2 no commerical tool maker will ever write anything for a GPL
	   product
	
	4) There are some serious questions of if the code written under a GPL license is
	   also GPL by definition.  LGPL does not resolve that.

	The license we are currently favoring for the core implimentation is Mozilla (MPL)
with very small portions under in a variant of MPL (which does not change the intent just
the wording of one clause).

	--Aryeh

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