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From: | graydon hoare |
Subject: | [Monotone-devel] Re: Problem when commiting |
Date: | Mon, 05 Apr 2004 16:54:57 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) |
Andre Nathan wrote:
This is very good news... Just out of curiosity, have you considered a change to a MIT/BSD-style license? (I understand that this may be too drastic for people who like the GPL, though)
eh.. at the risk of aggravating people's license fatigue, I would personally say I think of LGPL as an "enhancement" over MIT/BSD:
- the proprietay vendor can still distribute proprietary parts - there is a clear line drawn between libre and proprietary parts - they have to provide source code for the libre partsI think that's a fair trade. they get what they want (proprietary extensions) and I get what I want (redistribution of libre source code). with MIT/BSD, it seems that I lose the thing I want.
GPL really has the same angle, except that the "clear line" extends to the process boundary, which is a bit more awkward than the exported linkable symbols.
-graydon
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