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From: Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.name>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] J9P/StyxLib
Date: Wed,  1 Apr 2009 23:19:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090401201908.GC2577@home.power> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D3C83C.9040608@aspector.com>

Hi!

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:02:04PM +0200, Bernd R. Fix wrote:
> 2.) You have an OS project with a different, incompatible license
>     and want to include a GPL project or base some work on it.
>
>     I am sure that this problem occurred many times in the past; maybe
>     there even exists a 'best practice' approach how to deal with this.
>
> To be honest: I don't think that the first case is an argument against
> the GPL - not for me. I am more worried about the second case.
>
> So my question to you licensing experts: is there a better license that
> follows my basic statement (see above) and allows better "integration"
> into other OS licenses? If I have a better license model, I am certainly
> willing to change to it.

For libraries it usually solved using LGPL instead of GPL.


P.S. As for me, I'd like to try to make world a little better, and don't
bother much about reusing my code in commercial projects or even removing
my name from sources - so I use Public Domain for all my applications and
libraries.

GPL is a virus, designed to war against commercial software. That's not my war.

--
			WBR, Alex.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01 20:19 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
2009-04-01 20:02           ` Bernd R. Fix
2009-04-01 20:19             ` Alex Efros [this message]
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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