Re: [Fresco-devel] Cross-platformability

Tobias Hunger wrote:

> > All I would add is that the LGPL license will drive away commercial
> > developers.  Most of the ones I know completely avoid xGPL, though they
> > do use wxWindows, which has a modified LGPL license permitting
> > commercial work.  I think that the Mozilla Public License is also more
> > friendly than raw LGPL but don't hold me to it.
> 
> It is LGPL and -- at least the code I wrote -- will stay under that license.
> It's not really a problem anyway: Connecting to CORBA objects is not
> considered linking afaik, so *using* Fresco is allowed to anyone, even for
> proprietary software. Dunno wether I like that, but I guess it is necessary
> to attrakt commercial interesst at some point.

It depends upon everyone's feelings, but the only code that might be
worth having under a different license, if at all, would IMHO maybe be
the 'helper' libraries for each language. Of course there is nothing
stopping companies writing their own small wrapper/helper code, so this
isn't that critical.

-- 
Neil