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[Axiom-developer] Re: 2.6.8 licensing
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Camm Maguire |
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[Axiom-developer] Re: 2.6.8 licensing |
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:55:04 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Greetings!
Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
> Donald Winiecki <address@hidden> writes:
>
> | A change to the most recent licenses will make things consistent with
> | FSF's current way of thinking about open source, though more
> | aggressive developers seem to think it's restrictive. Given the
> | typical users and usual applications of GCL, this may not be an issue.
>
> It is my opinion that GPLv3 goes a bit too far -- but I would dispute
> the label "aggressive developer" :-)
>
> | But I'm not sure -- if GCL is licensed under GPL3, does that mean that
> | anything built with or under it will also have to be licensed under
> | GPL3? (I guess that's why Camm is querying the Axiom list.)
>
> Indeed. That does have some implication for systems like the AXIOM family.
> If I understand correctly, it will be a move from LGPL to GPLv3?
>
Please excuse my ambiguous wording. The proposal is to license GCL
under LGPLv3 (currently LGPLv2), and the documentation under the
FDLv1.3. The LGPL 'library' license is non-viral for apps such as
axiom.
> | And copyrighting GCL under the FSF seems like a reasonable idea, but
> | without Camm, GCL would be fairly well static, I think.
>
> well those are separate issues, I would think. Having FSF owns
> copyright relieves from some legal paperwork and burdens. That is
> largely orthogonal to who actually does the development work.
Yes, this is orthogonal, and not too pressing. But I do wonder if the
copyright holder has final say over issues such as licensing, which
might not be the case now.
Take care,
>
> -- Gaby
>
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