Re: Licence issues

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Marcos Dione wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:15:59PM +0100, Sebastien Bigaret wrote:
> >   So: I'd like to hear from any of you here who thinks the GPL is or
> >   could be a problem for you/your company/your activity (or maybe think
> >   the opposite) --since this has been put on my list and that I plan to
> >   make up my mind soon, it's probably time to speak loud and clear ;)
>
>     I think the stock answer is: LGPL or a double licencing, like qt
> does. those are the simple choices. or you can try to build a new
> license, but try to avoid the errors made by xfree or apache. maybe you
> can also read the slashdot articles and comments and draw your own
> conclusions.


I would definitely caution against writing your own license because of the
legal complexities involved.  The LGPL would, as I understand it, allow
Modeling to be used in commercial apps while insisting that Modeling
itself remain open source.  Apparently the BSD license would allow
this as well. Eric Raymond has a good chapter on the issues
in the Art of Unix Programming:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch16s07.html

As a matter of opinion, either LGPL or GPL would work for me.

						Matt


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