From: Roman V Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] J9P/StyxLib
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:50:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238608248.22573.19384.camel@work> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D39B0F.2030508@aspector.com>
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 18:49 +0200, Bernd R. Fix wrote:
> David Leimbach schrieb:
> > Anyway to get a non GPL v3 licensed version from you? I may not be able to
> > use this implementation for what I want otherwise.
> > I was actually planning on doing this myself, anyway at one point, and
> > BSDLng it.
>
> I guess there is a clash of licenses between your project and J9P. So
> what licence are you using (I assume it is no commercial project) and
> what makes it problematic? I am not too deep into this licensing business.
>
> As (currently) sole copyright holder I can make exceptions, but I feel
> that this problem should be solved in a more general way. Any ideas?
> Feel free to contact me via private mail on this.
>
> I thought about using the LGPL for the project and might reconsider that
> once a stable stage is reached.
Not implying anything, just a question: what made you pick GPL in the
first place?
Thanks,
Roman.
P.S. Personally, I try to license my stuff under as non-restrictive
license as possible (BSD or at least LGPL) that still protects me.
That said, I do understand people who use GPL as a statement, not
because the license is particularly good.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-01 11:43 Bernd R. Fix
2009-04-01 13:20 ` hiro
2009-04-01 14:48 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-01 15:05 ` Bernd R. Fix
2009-04-01 16:20 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-01 16:49 ` Bernd R. Fix
2009-04-01 17:28 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-01 17:50 ` Roman V Shaposhnik [this message]
2009-04-01 20:02 ` Bernd R. Fix
2009-04-01 20:19 ` Alex Efros
2009-04-01 20:42 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-01 20:46 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-01 21:11 ` Uriel
2009-04-01 21:33 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-01 22:01 ` hiro
2009-04-01 20:47 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-04-01 21:30 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-01 21:22 ` hiro
2009-04-01 21:06 ` Wes Kussmaul
2009-04-01 21:12 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-02 18:04 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-04-03 1:09 ` Bernd R. Fix
2009-04-01 15:06 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
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